Medical Student Ultrasound Education: A WFUMB Position Paper, Part I

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Germany; Ultrasound Department, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. Electronic address: Christoph.dietrich@ckbm.de.
• ² Harvard Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA.
• ³ Ultrasound Services, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• ⁴ Imaging Desk & Ultrasound Department, School of Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and Octavian Fodor Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj Napoca, Romania.
• ⁵ Translational Gastroenterology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ Department of Imaging Diagnostics, Policlinico Umberto I, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Radiology, Hospital das Clinicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ⁸ Department of Medical Ultrasound, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
• ⁹ Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• ¹⁰ National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital, and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ¹¹ Universität Bern, Berner Institut für Hausarztmedizin (BIHAM), Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹² Department of Medical Imaging, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ¹³ College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Sydney Ultrasound for Women, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Ultrasound Section, Division of Surgery, Department of Gastroenterology, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹⁵ Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹⁷ Diagnostic Radiology Institute, Paula Stradins clinical university hospital, University of Latvia, Riga Stradins university, Riga, Latvia.
• ¹⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Sono Education Academy, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ²⁰ Department of Gastroenterology, Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Craiova, Romania.
• ²¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, EFSUMB Learning Center, Klinik Hirslanden, Zürich, Switzerland.
• ²² College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
• ²³ Department of Imaging & Diagnostic Radiology, WFUMB COE, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ²⁴ Ultrasound, Charles Sturt University, Australia, New South Wales, Australia.
• ²⁵ Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Yuanpei University of Medical Technology, Taipei Taiwan.
• ²⁶ University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Francis Hospital, Columbus Georgia, USA.