Nuvance Health - Vassar Brothers Medical Center

Nuvance Health at Vassar Brothers Medical Center is thrilled to recruit for our Advanced Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship. We are a one-year program designed to make you an Ultrasound Educator. Please watch our informational video for more information: http://bit.ly/NuvanceHealthUSFellowship

We will develop your expertise in the fundamentals of advanced clinical ultrasound and teaching while fostering excellence in administration and research. At the core of our program is ensuring a well-rounded educational experience for our fellows. We welcome applications from Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Family Medicine.

Nestled in the stunning Mid-Hudson Valley, Vassar Brothers Medical Center serves as a cornerstone for our vibrant community, catering to an urban, suburban, and rural catchment area. With eight residency and six fellowship programs, our 350-bed tertiary care hospital with high acuity proudly offers an immersive environment for medical education. Our Ultrasound fellows educate a diverse range of learners, including medical students, physician assistant students, and residents from Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Transitional Year, and Anesthesia.

Throughout the program, our fellows benefit from a variety of educational activities. These include a weekly fellows’ academic conference day, bimonthly SIM sessions, monthly research meetings, and weekly fellow-faculty scanning sessions. Notably, the initial month of the fellowship is exclusively dedicated to one-on-one fellow-faculty scanning, allowing for focused and personalized instruction without additional US learners. Additionally, we offer elective months in research, international US, and regional anesthesia. Furthermore, we collaborate with our sports medicine and EMS programs, offering valuable opportunities in prehospital ultrasound education and advanced musculoskeletal ultrasound.

Join us at Nuvance Health - Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Together we will build the next stage of your career making you an exceptional POCUS educator and a skilled clinician in the field of clinical ultrasound.

Why Poughkeepsie? Poughkeepsie is unique from the NYC programs. Our campus is surrounded by gorgeous views of the Hudson River, state parks, and the beauty of the Hudson Valley. With easy access to everything from the famed hiking trails to a short car or train ride to NYC, we are an ideal spot for both urban and outdoors recreation. Dutchess County has exceptional hiking trails, bike trails, golf courses, vineyards, state parks, pick your own farms, craft breweries, historic homes, excellent school districts, reasonable cost of living, and a short drive to some of the best ski resorts in the region.

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Stephanie Midgley, MD, FPD-AEMUS, FACEP, is the director of the Ultrasound Division and US Fellowship director. She went to medical school at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, followed by residency and US fellowship at Brown University at Rhode Island Hospital. After completion of fellowship, Dr. Midgley joined Vassar Brothers Medical Center in 2013, taking the position of director of Emergency Ultrasound. Under her guidance the division has grown to encompass additional faculty members and now teaches all point of care and clinical ultrasound for Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Anesthesia, and Transitional Year residencies as well as medical students, physician assistant students, nursing, and fellow attendings. Additionally, she won best teacher of the year award in 2022 and 2023.

Joseph Felice, MD is the director for residency ultrasound education. Joey Felice graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in psychology in 2008. Before earning his MD from SUNY Downstate in 2015, Joey worked for several years as a paramedic in his native Hudson Valley. Since completing his residency in Emergency Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 2019, he has dedicated much of his non-clinical time to teaching POCUS at the bedside. He also maintains a passion for prehospital medicine and currently serves as the medical director for two ALS EMS agencies. His primary POCUS interests revolve around the critical care & prehospital applications of ultrasound.

Melissa Hazlitt, MD is the director for student ultrasound education. She completed her undergraduate training in International Relations in 2006 and her Masters in Diplomacy in 2009. She graduated from Meharry Medical College in 2014 and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 2018. She has since worked in building her not-for-profit, ECHO Medical group, with a focus on point-of-care ultrasound training in Peru. She has conducted multiple workshops for Peruvian physicians and maintains an interest in bidirectional POCUS education.

Program Information:
Fellows will learn advanced clinical ultrasound skills, as well as, hone their educational style by teaching to a multitude of different residencies and student learners. You will also learn administrative skills needed to run an Ultrasound Division including drafting protocols/guidelines, performing image Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement, and much more. In addition to these program components, our fellows are required to complete a research project and will be guided through the process by VBMC's research division.
Our fellows will have the unique experience of 1 full month of 1:1 bedside US teaching without any additional learners by our US faculty and a sonographer. This will be followed by 4 weeks of shadowing US teaching sessions prior to running any US teaching sessions. Once a week there will be image review. Every month there will be a fellows' educational conference dedicated to journal club, case conference, and lecture on advanced US topics. There are opportunities to learn Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) on a simulator, followed by TEE training with the Department of Anesthesia. Additional regional anesthesia elective is available with the Department of Anesthesia. Finally, there are opportunities for ultrasound electives including international education with ECHO medical group in Peru if interested as well as research elective.

Academic Offerings:
Our Fellows' Conference will occur once a month. This conference includes a monthly journal article, case conference, image review, and a lecture on advanced US topics.

Simulation days will occur bimonthly. These will include a year cadaver lab for nerve block training, TEE training, as well as US scanning practice on standardized patients for advanced US applications.

The Core Curriculum Conference Series will include weekly 1:1 US scanning sessions with faculty followed by a mini-lecture with a concentration on the various advanced clinical US applications.

Ultrasound Teaching Sessions will be fellow run once a week after completion of the first two months of the fellowship. These teaching sessions include scanning time with the various residents and students rotating through the Point of Care Ultrasound Elective, followed by a lecture on one of the core clinical ultrasound applications, and review of the rotators independently performed US images.

Ultrasound Faculty Teaching Conferences: Fellows will also be involved in planning, executing, and teaching at the yearly US Faculty Conferences for Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care physicians.

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Only if provider was not granted privileges for bedside ultrasound during the credentialing process.

Website for more information: https://learning.nuvancehealth.org/fellowship-programs/advance-clinical-ultrasound-fellowship/

Division of Clinical Ultrasound Home Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/emusdivision/home

Informational video about our fellowship program: https://bit.ly/3qS5KPh