Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellow

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards package supporting health, life, career, and retirement

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is offering an Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship designed to train the next leaders in emergency ultrasound. The fellow will gain advanced skills in ultrasound program administration, education, and research while practicing clinical emergency medicine.

Candidates must be board-eligible or certified from an accredited residency program, with prior experience in ultrasound preferred. The fellowship aims to prepare fellows for the ABEM Focus Practice Designation in advanced emergency ultrasound.

Qualifications

• Must be board-eligible or board-certified from an ACGME-accredited program.
• Clinical good standing required with experience in ultrasound preferred.
• Commitment to learning and research in advanced emergency ultrasound is essential.

Responsibilities

• Perform 1000 ultrasound studies during the year.
• Teach point-of-care ultrasound to learners.
• Engage in scholarly activity including research projects.
• Practice emergency medicine for 800 hours during the fellowship year.

Skills

Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Knowledge

Teaching Skills

Administrative Skills

Research Skills

Education

Board-eligible or board-certified graduate from an ACGME-accredited Emergency Medicine residency

Job description

General Description

The goal of the Johns Hopkins Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship is to train the next leaders in the emergency ultrasound community. Upon completing their fellowship, fellows will achieve the skills necessary for ultrasound program administration, education and curriculum development, research, and advanced ultrasound skills to assist in clinical decision-making.

Faculty directors of the program: Eric Lieu, MD, and Tiffany Fong, MD.

Objectives

• ADVANCED EMERGENCY ULTRASOUND KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL
  • Perform at least 1000 ultrasound studies in a variety of applications during the academic year.
  • Participate in didactics throughout the year following a curriculum developed by the ultrasound fellowship director.
  • Participate in 4 hours of weekly image review with faculty and perform independent quality image review of scans performed by other trainees.
• TEACHING AND EDUCATION
  • Gain experience teaching point-of-care ultrasound to learners at all levels of training.
  • Lead or assist in teaching efforts led by the emergency ultrasound division, including small and large group didactics and bedside teaching.
  • Produce educational content with a minimum requirement of presenting one lecture.
  • Build skills in curriculum development for an ultrasound educational program.
• ADMINISTRATION
  • Gaining experience in point-of-care ultrasound administrative skills necessary to run a clinical and educational program, including machine maintenance, workflow, quality improvement, billing/coding, and credentialing.
  • Assist in ultrasound administrative needs of the department and participate in administrative meetings with the ultrasound division, IT, and hospital administration.
• SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
  • Gain experience in research and engage in a scholarly activity, including completion and submission of a research project as an abstract or presentation at local, regional, or national society meeting and/or publication of a manuscript.
• CLINICAL
  • Continue to practice emergency medicine as faculty of the department of emergency medicine for a contracted 800 hours during the fellowship year.

By the end of the fellowship, the fellow will be qualified and prepared to achieve the ABEM Focus Practice Designation in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound.

The fellowship director will supervise all fellow functions, excluding clinical work where the fellow will work autonomously as a board‑eligible physician under the direction of clinical leadership. All ultrasound faculty members will serve as educators, mentors, and advisors for the fellow during their fellowship year. Quarterly meetings between the fellowship director and fellow will ensure that the fellow is meeting benchmarks, progressing with scholarly work, and achieving their own professional goals.

Qualifications

Prerequisites: The fellow must be a board‑eligible or board‑certified graduate from an ACGME‑accredited Emergency Medicine residency program or ABEM‑approved combined program.

Prior Experience: Must be in good standing clinically with their residency program or as a practicing attending. At the time of acceptance, applicant should be credentialed and meet criteria for privileging in the basic applications of emergency ultrasound. Engagement in teaching, scholarly activities or research, preferably in ultrasound, is desired. Applicant should be able to demonstrate an interest and commitment to learning advanced emergency ultrasound, and should have a personal goal they would like to achieve during their fellowship year.

Salary Range

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, including the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

Total Rewards

Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Johns Hopkins University is committed to equal opportunity for its faculty, staff, and students. To that end, the university does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. The university is committed to providing qualified individuals access to all academic and employment programs, benefits, and activities on the basis of demonstrated ability, performance and merit without regard to personal factors or demographic characteristics that are irrelevant to the program involved.