Postgraduate Certificate in Clinician-Performed Ultrasound (PGCertCPU)

Postgraduate Papers

GENX 717 Generalist Medical Echocardiography
- Principles of generalist performed echocardiography, its application to medical diagnosis and management, especially in an emergency or rural setting to more accurately diagnose and appropriately manage medical problems.
GENX 718 Generalist Medical Ultrasound
- Principles of generalist performed ultrasound, its application to medical diagnosis and management, especially in an emergency or rural setting to more accurately diagnose and appropriately manage medical problems.

AAA, FAST scan – trauma, gallstones, bladder, early pregnancy, foreign body, hydronephrotic kidney, above knee DVT, pericardial effusion, impaired LV systolic function, volume assessment in the shocked patient, significant mitral incompetence and aortic stenosis.

Procedures under US guidance - draining pleural effusions and ascites, insertion of suprapubic catheter, bladder aspiration, difficult vascular access and removal of foreign body.

There is compulsory attendance at three x three day residential workshops, two audioconferences and blackboard discussion through the university website.

Please note:

These papers are taught and must be studied together over a full year.
You must have access to an ultrasound machine.
Participant numbers limited to 8 per stream.
Two streams will be taught in 2012. Choose stream one OR stream two (not both).
Limited to: PGCertCPU, PGDipRPHP
Location: Dunedin and Clyde

Stream One Residential Workshop 2012
Thur 23 - Sat 25 February, Dunedin
Fri 27 - Sun 29 April, Clyde, Central Otago
Thurs 23 - Sat 25 August, Dunedin

OR

Stream Two Residential Workshop 2012
Thurs 15 - Sat 17 March, Dunedin
Fri 18 - Sun 20 May, Clyde, Central Otago
Thurs 6 - Sat 8 September, Dunedin

Contact:

The Rural Postgraduate Administrator is:

Michelle Muir
Administrative Assistant
Email: michelle.muir@otago.ac.nz
Tel: +64 3 479 7429
Cell: 027 521 4733