Ultrafest

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• Image 1: More than 200 medical, osteopathic and physician assistant students from all over California converged May 20 at UCI for the first-ever UltraFest 2012, which provided hands-on training in portable ultrasound.
• Image 2: Portable ultrasound lets medical professionals glean information - such as blood flow through the heart - from inside a patient's body, facilitating bedside or exam-room diagnosis.
• Image 3: The UltraFest workshops were tailored to ultrasound use in cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, urology, surgery, anesthesia and sports medicine - among other specialties - and featured human, animal and state-of-the-art mannequin models.
• Image 4: "The students love working with the ultrasound," says Dr. Chris Fox, professor of emergency medicine and director of instructional ultrasound at UCI. "They see this as a value added to their education, an extra skill set that empowers them."
• Image 5: UCI physicians, fellows, residents and students conducted the UltraFest workshops. UCI's medical school is the only one in California to include portable ultrasound technology in its curriculum and one of the first in the nation.
• Image 6: Unlike traditional ultrasound machines, which are large and unwieldy, the portable devices are the size of a briefcase and easily maneuverable in crowded clinical settings.