In May 2022, three faculty members and a clinical fellow from the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging created and led a novel three-part ultrasound procedure course for senior medical students at the UCSF School of Medicine. Training focused on technique for central venous access, paracentesis, and thoracentesis paired with reflection and storytelling to contextualize procedural skills in a larger framework of patient experience and physician emotion.
Course faculty were Rachelle Durand, DO and Miles Conrad, MD, MPH from the Interventional Radiology section, and Preethi Raghu, MD and 2021-22 Clinical Fellow Stephanie Nguyen, MD, from the Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound section.
The three-hour elective took place at UCSF Kanbar Center for Simulation and Clinical Skills and was part of the career launch phase of the fourth-year…
