FAQs

POCUS Frimley provides corses for doctors, PAs and ANPs who want to learn Point of Care Ultrasound.

You do not need previous practical ultrasound experience.

Our courses last half a day and are purely practical with groups of 3 delegates rotating through stations.

In each station a mentor is present to demonstrate, guide and assist the delegates.

In the stations the activities include:

– Scanning of healthy models;

– Discussion of clips showing pathologies;

– Simulation of clinical scenarios (also with the use of a simulator); and

– Practice of clinical skills on phantoms.

No formal lecture is delivered during the course; all lectures are sent online beforehand.

These are the introductory, compulsory, courses to the FAMUS (Focused Acute Medicine Ultrasound) and the FUSIC (Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care – Heart, Lung, Abdomen, Vascular modules) accreditation.

Accreditation is achieved once you have completed your logbook.

Yes they are. The Society for Acute Medicine (SAM), for FAMUS, and the Intensive Care Society (ICS), who sponsors FUSIC, mutually recognise the other course as equivalent for the accreditation in the curriculum they promote.

It is strongly advised since the course is practical stations only, and very intense.

Additional teaching and tips will be given with the expectation that you have the basic knowledge and understanding from the online training.

For FAMUS, you need a FAMUS-accredited Supervisor.

For FUSIC Heart, you need a FUSIC Heart and BSE-accredited Supervisor.

You need a Supervisor to finalise the completion of your training and to obtain your accreditation.

If you don’t have one in your hospital you may look for one in a nearby hospital or enquire from us during the course.

A Supervisor can also act as a Mentor.

A Mentor is someone skilled in a particular area of ultrasound (Lung, Vascular, Heart etc) who can directly supervise the first 10 scans (compulsory) and support you during the completion of your portfolio.

A Mentor who is not FUSIC/BSE or FAMUS accredited can’t act as a Supervisor.

Yes, however the REsUS initiative cannot substitute for the direct supervision of the first scans by a local Mentor (for example of the first 10 for the FUSIC heart module).