Global US Education

We maintain a strong relationship with the Pontificia Universidad de Católica (PUC) in Santiago, Chile. Our first international fellow, Pablo Aguilera, is the Dean of International Education at PUC as well as the Latin American lead for EM:RAP. We have helped to train other PUC faculty, such as their POCUS Director, Carlos Basaure, as well as many visiting PUC residents. In addition, every year we have been invited to help with their government sponsored ultrasound courses, which have trained several hundred general practitioners throughout Chile and Latin America in Emergency Medicine and POCUS.

In addition, Jackie Shibata leads a monthly training-of-trainer longitudinal curriculum for providers at the Refugee Health Alliance (RHA) clinics in Tijuana, Mexico. RHA provides essential medical care and social services to individuals from all over the world, who have arrived to the U.S.-Mexico border after being displaced by economic, environmental, political, and/or social forces in their home countries.

Lastly, we support our resident physicians and students on international rotations in which POCUS training is a main priority. This includes courses and rotations in Haiti, Nicaragua, Armenia, South Africa, The Gambia, and Zimbabwe.