Facing the Ultrasound education: Establishment of an unified and well-structured curriculum

Purpose: The role of medical ultrasound (US) is steadily increasing. Ultrasound is an inexpensive and readily available diagnostic method. Therefore ultrasound becomes even in medical schools more and more important in theoretical as well as in practical teaching. Following this development many medical schools offer now a basic training in ultrasound. The concepts varies both in time, scope, content and availability of capabilities. Material and Methods: The working group students in the DEGUM (German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine) has developed a catalogue of learning objectives, which is to represent the…