Course 5

Sponsored by: Optikon and Al Safa & Almarwa Medical equipment SCANMATE FLEX
Number of Candidates: 20 candidates
Aim of Course: Understanding basics of B scan ultrasonography and UBM and how the machines work and learn how to examine your patient by B-Scan and different probe orientation and interpretation of findings.
Course Directors: Hala El Cheweikh, Rasha Abbas
Instructors: Alia Noureldine, Shaymaa Hassan Salah

Course Details:

09:00 – 11:35    Didactic presentations:

09:00 – 09:05
Course overview and its objectives and self-assessment questions

Hala El Cheweikh

09:05 – 09:20
How to examine patients using B-Scan

Shaymaa Hassan Salah

09:20 – 09:30
How to examine patients using UBM

Alia Noureldine

09:30 – 10:00
Pediatric disorders

Hala El Cheweikh

10:00 – 10:30
Vitreo-retinal Disorders

Shaymaa Hassan Salah

10:30 – 11:00
Ocular Trauma

Rasha Abbas

11:00 – 11:30
Ocular Oncology

Alia Noureldine

11:30 – 11:35
Self-assessment questions and discussion
11:35 – 12:00
Coffee & snacks with the experts

12:00 – 13:00     Dry Lab:

Hands on experience (2 stations)
– 2 machines stations.
– Each candidate will spend 30 minutes at each stations:
1)One B scan station     2)One UBM station
– At each machine station, candidates will be trained by an instructor how to operate the machine and interpret findings.