Aspire UCS Companion Animal Abdominal Ultrasound Survey 2 day interactive workshop

Course overview

The Aspire UCS team have many decades of ultrasound experience, (scanning and teaching) in both the human and veterinary worlds of medicine. It is essential that you understand how to drive your ultrasound machine so the workshops have been developed to ensure that you get a good mixture of lectures combined with plenty of hands on practical time. we have numerous workstations and a low delegate to mentor ratio so you will be learning in small groups. Our many years of teaching hundreds (possibly even thousands between us) of human medics and sonographers and hundreds of veterinarians and vet techs means we know exactly what works and what doesn't. No matter the profession or experience of delegates in our different workshops, ultrasound is ultrasound so we teach everyone the basic principles and how to drive the machine in an engaging and interactive format. We understand that, as individuals we all take on board information in slightly different ways and our teaching methods coupled with small groups ensures that no matter your preferred method of learning, you will have a solid knowledge base to take back to practice to enable you to drive your own ultrasound machine. Once you understand the machine controls and how to use them to improve the image quality we will teach our systematic approach to scanning the abdomen to build your confidence step by step - yes even the adrenals and pancreas can be mastered! We teach an eight step technique for scanning the abdomen so that each step can be practiced and mastered without being overwhelming and as you become more confident and your competence improves you will find yourself automatically bringing all the steps together to complete the abdomen without having missed any structures. The ability to recognise normal and normal variants is what makes it easy to recognise abnormal! Our unique way of sharing our skills and knowledge will make your learning experience the best you will have ever had (according to our 80+ 5 star reviews). We will be using compliant pets but also 'Lillie' the Aspire UCS canine ultrasound training phantom; Lillie has been created to support ultrasound scan training and contains tissue mimicking organs and structures for you to find and you can practice your fine motor skills without worrying about hurting your patient or your patient getting grumpy! Not even Aspire UCS can make you competent in 2 days (it takes 600 hours of learning in the UK before a 'human' sonographer is allowed to scan patients autonomously and even then they have a mentor working with them for 3 - 6 months) but we will give you the confidence to start to use your ultrasound machine more and more so as well as becoming a more useful diagnostic tool, it will start to become a valuable business asset too.