Advanced Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship
The goal of the U-M Medical School Department of Family Medicine's Advanced Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship is to train our fellows to be leaders in point of care ultrasound (POCUS). We aim to deliver the best ultrasound fellowship education in the country. Fellows will become excellent clinical sonographers, educators, academic leaders, and administrators in ultrasound.
The fellowship will provide the skills necessary to become an effective Ultrasound Director.
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Program Highlights
- The Advanced Primary Care Ultrasound (APCUS) Fellowship has been designed to train primary care physicians to become experts in clinical ultrasound and leaders within the field
- It is offered collaboratively with the U-M Medical School's Department of Emergency Medicine.
- The APCUS Fellowship will prepare graduates to be directors of clinical ultrasound programs in both academic and community settings, to contribute to research, to teach clinical ultrasound and to get involved on a national and regional level.
- Fellows will have the opportunity to complete clinical ultrasound at our Family Medicine clinical sites including the Ypsilanti Health Center, the Chelsea Health Center, and Briarwood Family Medicine, as well as emergency department sites.
- The fellow will receive teaching from ultrasound faculty in the form of weekly lectures and hands-on scanning, both with faculty and in their continuity clinics.
- The APCUS fellow will take an important role in the education of family medicine residents, medical students, ultrasound track residents and interested Family Medicine faculty.
- The APCUS fellow will also participate in the intern’s ultrasound boot camp, medical student ultrasound lab and other relevant events in our state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Center.
How to Apply
The application window for the 2026-2027 fellowship year is now closed. Recruitment for the 2027-2028 fellowship year will begin in late summer of 2026.
Applicants are required to be residency-trained in the United States in family medicine and be certified or board eligible by the American Board of Family Medicine.
Recruitment for all of our family medicine fellowship programs will be done virtually this year. We anticipate all of our interviews and site tours will be conducted over a virtual meeting platform and applicants will not need to travel to Ann Arbor to apply. Thank you for your understanding.
Application Requirements
- Letter of Interest
- Curriculum Vitae
- Two Letters of Recommendation
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Current Fellows
Current Fellows are developing skills to succeed as clinically skilled, compassionate physicians. We emphasize teamwork, excellence and leadership.
Salary & Benefits
The University of Michigan offers highly competitive salaries and generous benefits to our fellows and advanced trainees. Trainee salary will be commensurate with that of a House Officer at an equivalent level of training based on the HOA contract.
Fellowship Experience
Our team has developed a wide array of opportunities for fellows to gain clinical ultrasound, education, academic, and administrative expertise. We have designed the Advanced Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship experiences to prepare trainees to be leaders in point of care ultrasound.
Fellows will become technically excellent sonographers. They will become experts in image acquisition, image interpretation, and application to patient care.
- 1000 completed, technically adequate, ultrasound exams. The fellow will record clips of all studies completed in the FM and ED department (be stored on Qpath).
- Attendance of weekly curated Quality Assurance (QA) sessions.
- Scanning at the bedside with ultrasound faculty in the ED and FM department to demonstrate proficiency in image acquisition and interpretation.
- Training of ultrasound-guided procedures.
During the course of fellowship, the Fellow will transition from trainee to teacher of POCUS. The Fellow will teach a wide range of POCUS topics to learners at a variety of skill levels in diverse practice environments.
- Creation of several lectures to present at weekly Tuesday morning US didactics and Wednesday resident lectures in both departments.
- Development of teaching skills of medical students, EM/FM residents, ultrasound track residents, and EM/FM faculty during scanning shifts.
- Prepare curated QA sessions with targeted questions, tips, and feedback to attendees of US didactics for both departments.
- Engage in ultrasound education in the ED, inpatient wards, Family Medicine clinics, Medical School, Pediatric ICUs.
- Complete an educational project with focus on family medicine curriculum development, implementation, improvement, and/or evaluation.
Fellows at U-M are part of a team dedicated to the advancement of POCUS education and research, and only as a team does UM US succeed. To that end, Fellows will engage in collaborative research.
- Development, submission, and completion of at least 1 IRB-approved US project.
- Complete at least 1 publication in manuscript form, including one piece of original research to be submitted for peer-review. (Desirable)
- Involvement in research projects underway within the Department which may include contributing to the development of the research project, subject enrollment, manuscript authorship.
- Submit at least 1 abstract for presentation at a national or international level EM, FM, or ultrasound conference.
- Participation in monthly US Research meetings.
The Fellow will gain a comprehensive understanding of ultrasound administration, including documentation, billing and coding, QA, ultrasound machine maintenance and purchasing.
- Become facile with Qpath, understand the role of departmental QA and how to provide constructive feedback to clinicians when images are inadequate or incorrectly interpreted, and management of critical errors.
- Become familiar with ultrasound machine maintenance, working with vendors, understand the important factors in ultrasound machine purchasing.
- Become familiar with common opportunities and challenges of operating a POCUS program within a hospital system.
- Become familiar with standard practices in ultrasound billing and coding.
- Select and complete an administrative project to gain experience in ultrasound operations.
- Remain current with national ultrasound organizations, controversial issues, advances in ultrasound technology and social media resources.
Program Leadership
Juana Capizzano
Program Director, Medical School
Preston Zacharias
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