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2023 ASBD Applied Breast Ultrasound for Clinicians

The Applied Breast Ultrasound for Clinicians Course facilitated by Dr Daniel de Viana, Prof Ian Bennett, and Mr Michael Law is designed for breast surgeons and other clinicians with limited prior experience in the use of ultrasound. The 2023 course is offered as online learning modules followed by a half-day practical workshop. One registration covers the two components of the course.

The course includes:

  • Approximately 4 hours of theory to be completed as an online learning course, as a prerequisite to the practical course. 
  • Half day of hands-on practical work. The dates and venues for the 2023 practical workshops are currently being finalised  

You can register for the course at any time and complete the theory modules. You will be contacted to confirm your practical venue choice once venues and dates are finalised.

2023 Venue & Date

Adelaide - Thursday 14th September 2023, alongside ASBD's 13th Scientific Meeting, 14-16 September 2023.

This course will be held in the morning so that conference delegates can attend an afternoon conference workshop if they wish.

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This educational activity will meet BreastSurgANZ requirements for trainees and will be submitted to RACS CPD Program.

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The course is accredited towards CCPU by the Australian Society for Ultrasound Medicine (ASUM).

THEORY COMPONENT

The course will take approximately 4 hours to complete. Approximate module completion times are shown.The course may be completed over a number of sittings. You may exit the course at the end of a module and resume later. (Remember your login details)

The online course program includes the following 9 modules.:

  • Scope of Ultrasound for Breast Surgeons (12 minutes)
  • Physical Principles of Ultrasound Part A (32 minutes)
  • Physical Principles of Ultrasound Part B (40 minutes)
  • Breast Ultrasound Anatomy, Pathology and Clinical Applications (25 minutes)
  • Practical Breast Ultrasound Optimisation (18 minutes)
  • Overview: Role of Clinician Performed Breast Ultrasound (35 minutes)
  • Integration of office breast ultrasound into clinical practice (30 minutes)
  • Ultrasound Guided Breast Biopsy and Perioperative Ultrasound Techniques (36 minutes)
  • Fulfilling Accreditation & Medicare Requirements (12 minutes)

PRACTICAL COMPONENT

The Practical workshop will include various work stations involving live scanning of patients and core, fine needle, and novel biopsy techniques on phantoms.

REGISTER NOW

  • If you would like to become an ASBD Member before registering for the course CLICK HERE. Membership entitles you to a member's discount for this course and other courses run by ASBD, as well as a discount on conference registration at the ASBD 13th Scientific Meeting in September. See Member Benefits for more details
  • Members - Applied Ultrasound for Clinicians. $650 USE YOUR ASBD MEMBER LOGIN DETAILS to login in the next step to receive a member's discount.
  • Non-Members - Applied Ultrasound for Clinicians $750 You will need to create a free account in the next step. To commence this select Don't Have an Acccount? from the list on the next screen.

KEEP THE LOGIN DETAILS YOU CREATE. They will be emailed to you when you create a new account.

USE THEM EVERY TIME YOU LOG INTO THE ASBD ONLINE LEARNING PORTAL.