Patrick Lanter, MD, MPH
Former AEMUS & Global EM Fellow
"The reason I am pursuing an ultrasound and global emergency medicine fellowship is so that I can help to develop sustainable ultrasound training programs in low-resource hospital settings.
"Currently, I am working with emergency medicine physicians at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) in Kigali, Rwanda to build a training program for the EM residency program there. The CHUK EM program is the only 4-year emergency medicine program in Rwanda and is responsible for training specialists in emergency medicine that serve throughout the country.
"I am working with physicians at CHUK to develop a sustainable point-of-care ultrasound curriculum both through in-person boot camp sessions at the beginning of the academic year as well as longitudinal training through virtual scanning shifts, conference lectures, and developing a Quality Assurance program to provide directed feedback to residents on their ultrasound studies.
" I'm also working directly with residents who have shown an interest in becoming ultrasound experts and training these future experts to take over teaching and quality assurance responsibilities as their careers progress beyond residency. Through my work, I hope to help emergency medicine physicians at CHUK and throughout Rwanda expand the use of point-of-care ultrasound to better serve their patients. Ultimately, we hope this work will provide a template for developing sustainable training programs in the future.
"My other research interests include utilizing ultrasound for screening patients to predict the operative success of cataract surgery through the Cure Blindness initiative, using teleguidance and remote Quality Assurance to credential physicians in rural emergency departments in basic point-of-care ultrasound modalities and developing ultrasound competency milestones for medical students."
Why choose a 2-year fellowship?
“I chose Stanford because the two-year nature allowed me to not only learn ultrasound well but use what I learned in a more meaningful way by working with the global health group. I would not have been able to do this project in a one-year program. The resources and mentorship at Stanford are incredible and if you can think of a project there are people in this department to help guide you to make it happen. I like it so much that I decided to stick around and do a second fellowship.”
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