Point of Care Ultrasound Fellowship Columbia - Director's Welcome

Thank you for your interest in our POCUS fellowship for the primary care specialties of internal medicine and family medicine.

Our fellowship is a unique training experience operated within the IM/FM departments, separate from the emergency ultrasound program. We are open to graduates of internal medicine, medicine-pediatric  and family medicine residency programs who desire to become leaders in ultrasound education and practice. 

POCUS is rapidly gaining acceptance as an important teaching and clinical practice tool across many topics and specialties. The future is very bright for academicians with expertise in ultrasound – teaching, practice, research, grants, publications, and leadership roles regionally, nationally, and globally. 

Prisma Health Midlands, in conjunction with The University of South Carolina School of Medicine (USCSOM) Ultrasound Institute (USI), has been a national leader in the integration of ultrasound in medical education and the development of clinical applications of ultrasound since 2005. 

After the USI was founded, in 2007 the USCSOM became the first medical school in the country to teach ultrasound skills across all four years of undergraduate training.  As education expanded from medical students, The Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship was started in 2011, the first non-Emergency-Medicine POCUS fellowship in the country.

Over the past four years the fellowship expanded to include academic career training and mentorship for IM and FM graduates. 

Prisma Health Midlands and the USCSOM USI faculty have strong partnerships with multiple ultrasound organizations including the AIUM, ACP, AAFP and WINFOCUS. The USI founded the Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education (SUSME) which hosted the First and Second World Congresses on Ultrasound in Medical Education and has conducted many workshops for internal medicine, family medicine and pediatric organizations as well as the AAMC, the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society and American Physiology Society.

We firmly believe POCUS is a core competency for IM and FM and seek fellows who will continue the work of education, research and leadership in the field.  

Sincerely,

Keith Barron, MD, FACP
Program Director