ISUOG BT Flex: Basic Training's Basics of Scanning

Join us for week 1 of BT Flex, 'Basic Training's Basics of Scanning' from 31 October to 6 November.

Thank you for participating in BT Flex, a 4-week Basic Training program you can follow from your own home. The program combines individual study of Basic Training videos with a weekly interactive webinar.

The webinar 'Basic Training's Basics of Scanning' on Saturday 5th November will be Chaired by Dr Suresh Seshadri (India) with speakers including Dr Gihad Chalouhi (France) and Dr Basma Darwish (Bahrain).

Weekly content

Below you can see a recommended schedule of lectures for week 1, "Basic Training's Basics of Scanning". Click on each day to see the video content you should watch - please note it is not essential to follow the day-by-day schedule, as long as you are able to complete the program by the end of the week. Click here to see a full week overview.

Monday

Basic Training Lectures

Lecture 1: Physical principles of ultrasound including safety

Lecture Presentation

Lecture 2: Transducers, image production, knobology & scanning planes TA & TV

Lecture Presentation

Practical instruction videos

The principles of ultrasound

ISUOG - Plan your movements and improve your image

Practical Demo: live demonstration with trainee, demonstration knobology

(From BT Flex 2021 by Divya Singh)

Tuesday

Basic Training Lecture

Lecture 3: The Principles of Doppler Ultrasound

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Practical instruction videos

Practical Demo: Measurement of uterine artery Doppler

Practical demo: of Doppler principles

From BT Flex 2021 by Suresh Seshadri

Basic Training Lectures

Lecture 4: Quality control processes for operators & programmes

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Lecture 5: Informed consent, image recording and report writing

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Practical instruction video

Train the BT Trainee: How to Prepare and Counsel the Patient.

Thursday

Basic Training Lectures

Lecture 6: Assessing the normal pregnancy between 4 and 10 weeks in singleton and twin pregnancies

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Lecture 7: Assessing the normal pregnancy between 10 to 14

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Practical instruction videos

The basic steps of an obstetric ultrasound

Practical demonstration: scan showing key features e.g. mean sac, CRL, caliper placement and image optimisation

From BT Flex 2021 by Divya Singh

Practical demonstration: example of NT showing quality control

From BT Flex 2021 by Gihad Chalouhi

Basic Training Lectures

Lecture 8: Cervical assessment

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Lecture 9: The 6-step approach

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Practical instruction videos

Live demonstration: Cervical assessment

Practical demonstration: The 6 Steps Approach - 6SA" in Volutracer OPUS

The ISUOG BT Practical Curriculum: How to Teach and Assess the BT Trainee

Practical Demo: The 6 step approach

Practical demonstration: Techniques for cervical assessment and examples (low lying placenta, funneling, cerclage, short, protrusioin)

From BT Flex 2021 by Suresh Seshadri

BT Flex Webinar: Basic Training's Basics of Scanning

Check the program and the key speakers of the first BT Flex webinar held on Saturday 5 November at 12:00 pm GMT.

Dr Gihad Chalouhi (France / Lebanon) Basic Training Sub-Committee Chair

Specialist in fetal medicine and surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon

Co-Founder of CéBB (Centre d’échographie Boulogne-Billancourt) and Centre SFFERe (Spécialiste Fœtus, Femme Enceinte et Reproduction). Part timer in the Fetal surgery center, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France.

Dr Gihad E. Chalouhi MD, PhD is an Obstetrics and Gynecology specialist. He worked for 8 years with Prof. Yves Ville Y and Prof. Laurent Salomon in Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris and is subspecialized in in prenatal diagnosis, fetal medicine, fetoscopy and fetal surgery with more than 300 performed fetoscopies. He is specialized in fetal imaging and obtained his PhD in fetal functional MRI in Paris Descartes University and INSERM unit U970. He is a member of the CNGOF (French National College of obstetrics and Gynecology), the LSOG (Lebanese Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology) and the CFEF (French College of Fetal Ultrasound).

He is a pioneer in the implementation of simulation in obstetrical and gynecological ultrasound education, and remains actively involved in this integration. He is an active member of ISUOG's Basic Training Task Force, and leader of the Simulation Work Group. For the last five years he has worked as part of ISUOG's Clinical Standards Committee for the establishment of ISUOG’s Guidelines.

He is the co-founder and President of SimECHOle, the school for ultrasound training and education using simulators in Paris, France.

Notable Publications: Dr Chalouhi has co-authored more than 70 scientific publications in internationally renowned journals and more then 10 chapters.

Use of simulators for the assessment of trainees' competence: trendy toys or valuable instruments?
Tolsgaard MG, Chalouhi GE. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2018 Apr 17. doi: 10.1002/uog.19071. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29667240.

"Fake it until they make it": Practical obstetrical and gynecological ultrasound education nowadays in France.
Chalouhi GE, Gueneuc A, Levaillant JM, Ville Y. Gynecol Obstet Fertil Senol. 2017 Nov;45(11):579-581. doi: 10.1016/j.gofs.2017.09.008. Epub 2017 Nov 3. French. PubMed PMID: 29108903.

Evaluation of trainees' ability to perform obstetrical ultrasound using simulation: challenges and opportunities.
Chalouhi GE, Bernardi V, Gueneuc A, Houssin I, Stirnemann JJ, Ville Y. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Apr;214(4):525.e1-525.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.10.932. Epub 2015 Nov 10. PubMed PMID: 26546849.

Ultrasound simulators in obstetrics and gynecology: state of the art.
Chalouhi GE, Bernardi V, Ville Y. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Sep;46(3):255-63. doi: 10.1002/uog.14707. PubMed PMID: 25346451.

Country: Lebanon and France

Field: Obstetrics/Gynecology/Fetal medicine and surgery

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening 1st trimester and 2nd trimester; fetal biometry and wellbeing; fetal anomalies screening; aneuploidy screening; fetal anomalies; fetal heart; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; fetal interventional procedure; multiple pregnancy; early pregnancy; fetal growth; education in Ob-Gyn ultrasound; fetal MRI and functional MRI; fetal surgery.

Languages: French; English; Arabic

Dr Suresh Seshadri (India) Outreach Committee member

Dr S.Suresh is the Managing Director of Mediscan Systems a tertiary referral centre for Fetal Medicine in India. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of O&G London (honoriscausa) and is actively involved in training over 4000 physicians from India and other countries in Ultrasound and Fetal Medicine for over 35 years. He has several publications to his credit and is involved in various Research projects in Fetal Medicine. He has set up the Birth Defects Registry of India which is recognized as a subnational registry by the WHO. He is the managing Trustee of Fetal Care Research Foundation a Charity organisation that aims to provide access to treatment options for the underprivileged. He is a recipient of several awards and was one of the earliest to set up a Fetoscopic surgical service in India.

He is a visiting Prof in Perinatology at the Sri Ramachandra Medical University and the Chief functionary of the Voluntary Health Services, a charitable hospital in Chennai which aims to achieve affordable quality health care for all .

Notable publications:

Radio frequency ablation in Complicated Monochorionic Pregnancy : Initial Experience DOI: 10; 1007/s/40556-017-0145 Journal of Fetal Medicine, 2017 Nov PP 1-6. Pm;ome [in;ocatopm 30th Nov 2017]

Suresh Seshadri; Down Syndrome Screening in India, Are we there yet? Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology India; 2017 Dec 17. 67(6) ; 393-399, Epub 2017 August 17 DOI : 10. 1007/S12098-017-2528-5

Country: India

Field: Fetal medicine

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening 1st trimester and 2nd trimester; fetal biometry and wellbeing; fetal anomalies screening; aneuploidy screening; fetal anomalies; fetal heart; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; multiple pregnancy; 3D & 4D ultrasound; fetal intervention procedure; early pregnancy; fetal growth.

Languages: English

Dr. Titia Cohen-Overbeek (Netherlands)

Titia Cohen-Overbeek has worked as a physician in Fetal Medicine at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Erasmus University Medical Centre since 1987. Prior to that she obtained her training in prenatal diagnosis during a 5-year period at Kings College Hospital in London under the guidance of professor Stuart Campbell. During that period, she was the first to visualize the blood flow in the uterine artery by Doppler ultrasound.

The early collaboration with many pediatric specialists resulted in numerous scientific papers on prenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies, their postnatal outcome and the long term follow up of these children. Her thesis “Detection of congenital anomalies before or after birth; does it make a difference?” was published in 2008. Following the introduction in the Netherlands in 2007 of the fetal anomaly scan as part of the national prenatal screening program she established an widely attended ultrasound training program for obstetricians. Since 2015 she became member of the national quality committee geared towards assessing the quality of the various prenatal screening tests available within the national prenatal screening program

She has been member of the ISUOG outreach committee from 2012-2018, participated in the outreach project in Somaliland in 2012 and has been the leader of the outreach project in Oman from 2017 onwards. She was a member of the ISUOG Basic Training Taskforce since 2016 and was particularly involved with the formation of the Basic Training theoretical curriculum. In a collaboration of Medical Aid Films with ISUOG she was part of the team that made the two Basic Training instruction films “The principles of ultrasound” and “The Basic Steps of an Obstetric Ultrasound Examination” which are free available on the ISUOG website.

Country: The Netherlands

Field: Obstetrics, MFM

Languages: English, Dutch

Specialties: Congenital anomalies, Doppler, teaching methods, audit methods.

Dr. Basma Darwish (Bahrain) BT Sub-Committee member

Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bahrain Defence Force Hospital, Bahrain

Dr Basma Darwish graduated with an MD degree in 2005 from the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain, she pursued a five year residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rouen University in France.

Her experience is in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as ultrasound, with both national and international participations. She is currently the head of Saudi's National Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Training Program, where she is in charge of supervising residents, mentoring them and participating in the development of the scientific and clinical program. She is also responsible for the Fetal Assessment Unit.

Country: Bahrain

Languages: English; Arabic, French

Dr Divya Singh (India) Outreach Committee member, CME Sub-Committee member

Dr Divya Singh is a Consultant Radiologist at Prime Imaging and Prenatal Diagnostics in Chandigarh, India. Her special interests are imaging technologies including ObGyn and breast ultrasonography, deep prenatal phenotyping using ultrasound, imparting ultrasound education and training in limited resource setting. Divya did her Masters in Radio-diagnosis with distinction from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. She completed a fellowship in Advanced ObGyn Ultrasonography from Mediscan Systems in Chennai. She has also completed a training course in Medical genetics from Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health (ICMR NIRRCH) Mumbai, India.

Divya is a member of the Outreach Committee and CME subcommittee of ISUOG. She is actively involved in various Working Groups in subcommittees of ISUOG. She has worked as an ISUOG ultrasound educator and trainer in Oman and Egypt and been a faculty in Basic Training Courses organised in India and Oman. Divya provides free voluntary ultrasound service to underprivileged expectant mothers in Chandigarh for which she has been awarded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

Country: India

Field: Imaging; ObGyn Ultrasonography; Fetal medicine; Breast ultrasound

Specialties: Fetal anomaly screening T1 & T2; fetal biometry and wellbeing; aneuploidies; fetal anomalies; fetal growth restriction; maternal and fetal Doppler; ObGyn ultrasound training and education

Languages: English; Hindi

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