Working with other physicians on a multi-day point of care ultrasound (POCUS) workshop for providers at Robert Reid Cabral (RRC) Hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Will work to provide education, including didactic lectures, bedside clinical teaching, and simulation on models. Will help support the team in a bidirectional learning model in which local providers will learn in the role of a teacher in order to create a sustainable model for growth. This workshop is a result of collaboration between physician partners at RRC, Yale University and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Local providers will be given the opportunity to expand their central line placement skills by utilizing US-guidance for assistance with line placement, a skill that local providers recognized as a knowledge gap to be filled during this trip. As a resident physician on the trip, I will be observing in their Pediatric ICU to see the utilization of POCUS on their unit to help support further studies on US utilization to promote the use of ultrasound in other countries.
- Physicians at Robert Reid Cabral Hospital
- Pediatric patients treated in the ED and ICU as they will benefit from increased access to high-quality POCUS utilization, including improvement in the utilization of ultrasound for central line placement to improve their outcomes.
This longstanding relationship has been bidirectional with continued education through POCUS lectures via Zoom meetings when not traveling to the Dominican Republic as well as frequent Whatsapp communication. Publishing the findings during the visit to their ICU will help to disseminate this structure to other hospitals & to better characterize the future educational needs.
I had the opportunity to work with some amazing physicians in Santo Domingo, DR. During the trip, I had the opportunity to help with the education of the providers in the DR on the use of point of care ultrasound for central line placements. We were able to directly see the impact on patient care with a line placement with ultrasound guidance in their PICU after our session.
