Based in Tirana, Albania.
Date of admission: May 2019
President- Dr. Ada Myrto ( Gastroenterologist)
- Secretary- Dr. Blerina Saraci ( Radiologist)
-Treasory holder- Ilir Alimehmeti ( Endocrinologist)
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Mongolia is a landlocked country bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. By the end of 2016, Mongolia has a population of 3,119,900 spread over an area of 1,566 460 sq/km giving a population density of 1.99 per sq/km. 68.9% of the total population live in cities and the remaining 31.1% reside in the rural areas.
The main aims of health services in Mongolia are the provision of accessible, equitable and quality services to everyone.
The priority of Mongolian health sector is to provide primary health care services to citizens. The health system of Mongolia is based on a two-tier model that provides health services at primary and secondary/tertiary levels:
• Primary health care is delivered by family health centres, soum/rural health centers and intersoum hospitals.
• Secondary health care is provided by district and aimag/provincial general hospitals, rural general hospitals.
• Tertiary health care is delivered by multispecialty central hospitals and specialized centers in capital city of Ulaanbaatar.
Official patient pathway in Mongolia is based on three layer system in order to improve the system efficiency and encourage public health priority. There are some differences between the patient pathways in rural and urban areas due to the structural differences in primary health care provision, which reflects geographical circumstances.
Family health centers (FHCs), provide primary care services for the people who live in the capital city and the aimag/provincial centres, while soum/rural health centers provide a wider range of primary care services to the rural population. The primary care services include outpatient exams, primary diagnostic services, antenatal care, family planning, the prescription of essential drugs, counselling, reassessment check-ups, home visits, palliative care, referrals to district hospitals, and health education and promotion.
A peculiarity of rural PHC in Mongolia is that the soum health centers provide not only outpatient services but also inpatient services for the rural population.
This is mostly because of the geographic and demographic features of Mongolia where the rural population is sparsely distributed over a huge area and they need some inpatient services before travelling long distances to get secondary inpatient care in aimag/provincial hospitals.
The specific challenge of rural primary care is to meet the various health needs of the scattered and distant nomads.
With use of portable ultrasonography machines at the primary health care settings, the need for education and training for primary health care practitioners became important.
During the Congress of WFUMB held in San Paolo in May 2013, Mongolian Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound (MSDU) put in for establishing Center of Education (COE) in Mongolia. WFUMB COE Mongolia established on 25 August 2013 at the Urguu Maternity Hospital No1 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Since that WFUMB COE Mongolia has conducted a training for primary health care practitioners three times a year for 3 months. 320 doctors were trained. Out of them 80 were rural doctors and 240 family doctors.
Based at Urguu Maternity Hospital No1 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Director: Enkhbayar Dondog - President of Mongolian Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound - View C.V here
Assistant of Director: Javkhlan Maikhuu
A Workshop WFUMB COE in Mongolia on 26-27th of July, 2019 in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia. One month basic training ultrasound course for preliminary healthcare physicians and three months of Ultrasound training course is held on March and October of 2019. We are going to participate in Congress of Mongolian Radiological Society in September 2019.
You can follow this COE by visiting the site www.msdu.mn or clicking on the title above.
Vietnamese Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, Vietnam – Candidate COE start date January 2019
The COE is based in the Radiology department of the Aga Khan University hospital in Nairobi Kenya.
Regular educational programs are organized by the COE on a monthly basis. The topics are current and span the entire field of ultrasound examinations. Attendance is good and numbers are increasing.
We hold an annual conference and the last conference was attended by 110 participants; this was full capacity! Attendees came from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Prof Odd Helge (President, EFSUMB) from Norway was our guest speaker.
Other educational programs include the recently concluded Visiq project. Phillips Medical Systems chose our COE to carry out the research project. Midwives with no previous experience in performing ultrasound were trained for 4 weeks at the COE using a well-structured curriculum that included both classroom teaching and hands on experience. Upon passing an exit examination, they were certified to perform basic obstetric ultrasounds with a view to identify high risk pregnancies. All scans were performed on portable Visiq ultrasound machines in three remote centers. Images and provisional reports were sent to the COE using mobile phone internet technology and validated by Radiologists. The accuracy of performing and reporting scans by midwives, as well as assessing this type of teleradiology was analyzed and the study was completed in 2016; it was recently published in UMB.
In our region, the COE has had a positive impact; here are some reasons:
a) We have improved skills for Sonographers who are practicing but require hands-on experience to perform difficult/challenging ultrasound procedures.
b) The CME lectures are popular and feedback from Sonographers is very positive. However, initially, it was only amenable to those that live in Nairobi. Sonographers from other cities find it difficult to attend. We are distributing the lectures to members of KESUMB.
c) By creating an interest in ultrasound among Radiographers, many are choosing this as their profession. There are now two training centers in Nairobi and large numbers are enrolling for the diploma courses.
Going forward, we are working on an accreditation process because we realized that there are some poorly trained Sonographers in Kenya who have been certified and are licensed to work. This poses serious challenges about patient safety. As a COE, we submitted a proposal to provide accreditation for qualified Sonographers. This will take the form of a test; those that pass will receive accreditation. Those that fail will be offered help (mainly ‘hands on’) to achieve accreditation. This idea has been floated amongst the Sonographer community and the response has been very positive. We are awaiting approval from authorities to start the accreditation process and hope to get this early next year.
The COE is based in the Radiology Department of the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
Address: 3rd Parklands Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
The COE Team are led by -
Director: SUDHIR VINAYAK MBChB, M.Med (KENYA)
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Sonographers Day
We intend to hold this in February 2019. Local funding will be sought but we may request request $1000.
Accreditation of practicing Sonographers
There are some poorly trained Sonographers in Kenya who have been certified and are licensed to work. This poses serious challenges about patient safety. As a COE, we have written a proposal to provide accreditation for qualified Sonographers. This will take the form of a test; those that pass will receive accreditation. Those that fail will be offered help (mainly ‘hands on’) to achieve accreditation. This idea has been floated amongst the Sonographer community and the response has been very positive.
We are writing a proposal to WFUMB for funding in this regard as a quality assurance exercise so we can improve the skills of Sonographers.
Budget: Three rounds @ $250 per batch of 10. Total: $750
Annual Conference
This will include participation from Sonographers in other cities of Kenya and from some East African countries. This may double as a small MASU meeting. The provisional date is October 2019. Part of the activity will be ‘hands-on’ teaching.
Budget: 2 speakers to be sponsored by WFUM
THEME: Strengthening utility of ultrasound in breast imaging and interventions in LMICs.
VENUE: Aga Khan University Hospital, Lecture theatre.
All WFUMB COE's are required to provide yearly activity reports:
KENYA 2018 Report - click here >
No current information for the Centre of Education in Ethiopia.
The WFUMB Center of Education Chisinau is located in the Public Medical and Sanitary Institution “Republican Center of Medical Diagnostics”.
There are 6 examination rooms, equipped with premium and expert ultrasound equipment, as well as computers and printers, where different scans are performed as: abdominal, gynecologic (transvaginal), obstetrics (first trimester), superficial organs as breast and thyroid gland, prostate (transrectal), scrotum, vascular and heart. There is also a meeting room where the courses can be held and a secretariat room. Republican Center of Medical Diagnostics provides also a Conference Hall, available for scientific meetings.
The activity of the WFUMB CoE Chisinau is held within the Public Medical and Sanitary Institution "Republican Center of Medical Diagnostics”
Address: Constantin Virnav str 13, MD-2025,
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
tel.: + (373 22) 888347, 725401
fax: + (373 22) 735558
e-mail: crdm@ms.md
List of permanent staff of WFUMB Center of Education Chisinau
Director: Dr. Serghei Puiu, MD, PhD - View C.V here
Executive director: Prof. Andrei Testemitanu, MD, PhD
Secretary: Anatol Cretu, MD
Members: Prof. Vasile Turcanu, MD, PhD
Lilana Fuior-Bulhac, MD, PhD
Ecaterina Puskina, MD
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WFUMB CoE Chisinau hands-on training „Basic abdominal ultrasound” for gastroenterologists.
Held in 22 June 2019, Vadul lui Voda, Republic of Moldova.
Lecturers: Sergiu Puiu, Vasile Turcanu, Carolina Tambala
The event was held during the Summer School of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of Moldova, that took place on 21-22 June 2019.
In conjunction with the:
The hands-on was attended by more than 100 participants (gastroenterologists and fellows in training) from Moldova and Transnistria.
The program:
Saturday, 22 June, 08.00 – 10.00, Learning area
Basic theoretical course. Introduction in abdominal ultrasound examinations. Common pathologies and special topics in abdominal ultrasound examinations
Hands-on area, 10.00 – 14.00, Hands-on Training
Saturday, 08.00-14.00Topics:
08.00 – 08.30 Basic physics of the ultrasound. Technical aspects and types of ultrasound examinations. Ultrasound applications in various fields.
Basic functionality of the machine. Basic settings of the US machine. Image optimization.
Limitations and common artifacts. The biologic effects of ultrasound on human tissue and safety issues.
Assessment of embryo anatomy according to gestational age. Biometry and embryo vitality.
Twin pregnancy, chorionicity and zygosity determination.
Ultrasound features of the most common pathologies of the first trimester of pregnancy.
(11- 13+6 weeks of gestation). Ultrasound markers of chromosomal pathologies.
Assessment of fetal anatomy according to gestational age. Fetal biometry.
Normal and abnormal appearances of the fetal anatomy. Common structural fetal abnormalities of the first trimester of gestation.
Ultrasound assessment of the placenta, amniotic fluid, umbilical cord and cervix. Key ultrasound features of common pathologies.
able to:
Lecturers:
Sergiu Puiu, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Liliana Fuior, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Attendance:
18 participants, students (sixth year) and gynecology residents of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”
Basic training course in gynecological ultrasonography.
Saturday, 08.00-13.00
Topics:
Lecturers:
Sergiu Puiu, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Liliana Fuior, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Attendance:
22 participants, students (VI year), OBGYN and radiology residents of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”
Basic Ultrasound Training Course in Obstetrics (second/third trimester)
Saturday, 08.00-14.00
Topics:
Lecturers:
Sergiu Puiu, Chisinau
Attendance:
12 participants, students (sixth year) and radiology residents of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”
Basic Ultrasound Training Course in Obstetrics
Topics:
Lecturers:
Sergiu Puiu, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Liliana Fuior, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Attendance:
22 participants, students (sixth year) and radiology residents of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”
Basic training course in gynecological ultrasonography.
Topics:
Lecturers:
Sergiu Puiu, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Liliana Fuior, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Attendance:
20 participants, students (VI year) and radiology residents of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Nicolae Testemitanu”
The program:
13.00-13.30 History of Gastrointestinal Ultrasound (GIUS) and its place among modern imaging modalities, prof Harald Lutz,
13.30-14.10 New GIUS guidelines from EFSUMB and bowel scanning methodology, prof Odd Helge Gilja,
14.10-14.40 GIUS, live demonstration (normal appearence),
14.40-15.00 Coffee-break
15.00-15.10 Samsung 5D Technology, a new standard in ultrasound. Chiran Denis-Mihail
15.10-15.40 Appendix, diverticuli. Appendicitis and diverticulitis, prof Dieter Nürnberg,
15.40-16.10 Inflamatory bowel disease, prof Ioan Sporea,
16.10-16.30 Complications in inflamatory bowel disease, prof Ioan Sporea, 20 min
16.30-16.50 Gastrointestinal emergencies, ileus and perforation, prof Dieter Nürnberg,
16.50-17.05 Transperineal ultrasound, prof Dieter Nürnberg,
17.05-17.35 Clinical cases,
17.35-18.00 GIUS, live demonstration (pathology),
18.00-18.20 Discussions
Lecturers:
prof Odd Helge Gilja (Bergen, Norway),
prof Dieter Nurnberg (Neuruppin, Germany),
prof Harald Lutz (Bayreuth, Germany),
prof Ioan Sporea (Timisoara, Romania)
The workshop was attended by 144 participants (sonographers, gastroenterologists, radiologists, fellows in training) from Moldova and Transnistria.
Abdominal ultrasound, from basic to advanced.
Friday, 15 June, 15.00 – 17.00
Learning area
Basic theoretical course. Introduction in abdominal ultrasound examinations
Hands-on Training: assessment of the liver and biliary system – Ioan Sporea
Hands-on Training: assessment of the gall bladder and bile duct
Hands-on Training: assessment of the pancreas and retroperitoneum
Hands-on Training: assessment of the spleen and (abdominal) lymph nodes
Hands-on Training: assessment of abdominal vessels
Hands-on Training: assessment of pelvic organs
Saturday, 16 June, 09.00 – 13.00
Learning/Hands-on area
Pathology and special topics in abdominal ultrasound examinations
Lecturers:
Attendance
30 participants, including 10 Timisoara gastroenterology residents, have attended the course
You can follow this COE by visiting the site http://www.crdm.md or clicking on the title above.
All WFUMB COE's are required to provide yearly activity reports:
MOLDOVA 2018 Report - click here >
The Sudanese Centre of Gastroenterology in Sudan opened in 2017.
The COE Sudan is based at the WGO Khartoum Training Center in Khartoum, Sudan.
The COE Team are led by -
Director: ELRAYAH MUSTAFA
- View C.V here
Co-Director: SUZAN ELHAKIM
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Critical Care Ultrasound Course.
Venue: Sudan Medical Specialization Board
Six International Conference On Mycetoma
Minatory Of Higher Education- Khartoum- Sudan
Annual GIT Ultrasound Course
Ibn Sina Hospital
Serial Activities for Post-graduate Radiologists
Police Hospital Khartoum
Musculoskletal Ultrasound For Rheumatology Post-graduates
Military Hospital -Omdurman
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COE DIRECTOR: Ramón O. Bataglia Araújo M.D
Phones
Cel: +595 971 155000
Office: +595 21 2171752
Email: batagliaramon@hotmail.com
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Course Yearly Report from 2016 – 2017 – Click Here
Course Yearly Report from 2018 – Click Here
The COE WFUMB-Venezuela initiated its activities in 2005 and since this year until 2017, we have had a number of attendees of 3,838 with a mean of 306 – 550 persons in each event. The lectures level have been basic, intermediate and advanced ultrasound with Workshops and Hands-on sessions.
In all meetings, we had renowned National and International speakers, including many FLAUS and WFUMB Officers.
In 2016, we decided to change the format of just an annual meeting with a high number of participants. We started to offer courses with longer hands-on session for smaller groups of physicians. The mean number of trainees is 20 per course.
The areas covered are Musculoskeletal, Neurovascular, Nephro-Urology, Abdomen and Vascular.
The COE WFUMB-Venezuela is financially independent of WFUMB but maintain the initiative and commitment for education and promotion for the good practice of ultrasound.
Centre of Education in Venezuela
The COE Team are led by -
Director: Leandro Fernandez, MD
Dr. Fernandez is Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Sonography at Instituto Medico La Floresta in Caracas and Professor of Physics and Clinical Applications of Doppler Ultrasound at SonoImagen-JUREI, which is affiliated to Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. He completed the Post Graduated Internship in Cardiology and Internal Medicine in 1982 and MSc in Internal Medicine in 1986 at Universidad Central de Venezuela and he has been involved with Ultrasound since 1985.
Dr. Fernandez’s primary areas of ultrasound experience are Nephro-Urology and Neurovascular. He became one of pioneers of the 3-D sonography in Latin America and has been working with 3DUS since 1997, with special dedication to non-Ob/Gyn applications, focused on Abdomen, Small Parts and Vascular.
Dr. Fernandez is affiliated to several scientific societies. He has been the recipient of important awards and recognitions such as Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and Honorary Member from the Societies of Ultrasound of Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. He received the Medal of the Latin American Federation of Societies of Ultrasound, FLAUS.
Dr. Fernandez has been very active in WFUMB activities since 2003. Presently he is Latin American Regional Director of Centers of Education. He has served in many positions on the Board of WFUMB, such Vice President 2 and 1. He was President of the World Congress WFUMB 2013, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Dr. Fernandez is a Keynote Speaker with more than 380 lectures and facilitations of numerous meetings around the World, invited by all WFUMB affiliated Federations and Ultrasound Societies of USA, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. He delivered the WFUMB Lecture in the EUROSON 2010, Denmark and in FLAUS 2011 in Paraguay.
No current information for the Centre of Education in Indonesia.
Kampala WFUMB COE was launched in October 2004 with subsequent regular renewals. The aim of the WFUMB COE is to offer formal and continuing medical education (CME) courses in ultrasound.
Formal courses are offered at certificate, diploma and Bachelors and Master’s degree levels. Continuing medical education courses are offered twice a year aimed at refreshing participants’ ultrasound knowledge and skills and at training the trainers. The COE regularly sends reports of its activities to the WFUMB and communicates with other WFUMB COEs.
The COE is under UGASON (Uganda Society for Sonography). ECUREI is the training centre for the COE. ECUREI stands for “Ernest Cook Ultrasound Research and Education Institute”. Ernest Cook was British missionary brought first X-ray machine to Uganda, in year 1910.
To date the COE has trained a total of 1,040 ultrasound users since its inception in 2004. This year, the COE held its first refresher course on with the theme “Vascular Ultrasound”. The second refresher course will run on 02/09/2017 with the theme “Chest Ultrasound”.
Last year in October, ECUREI graduated its first Bachelor’s of ultrasound degree students. This year in October, ECUREI will graduate its first Masters of Diagnostic Ultrasound students.
The main challenge facing the COE is the low ratio of ultrasound machines to numbers of students. ECUREI acquired 3 ultrasound machines this year one through a donation and two purchased by ECUREI.
COE Leader: Michael Kawooya -
Ernest Cook Ultrasound Research and Education Institute (ECUREI)
COE Head of Centre:
COE Staff:
Due to increasing demands for education and training in ultrasonography, World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology [WFUMB] has decided to establish ‘WFUMB Center of Excellence’ at different continents. Accordingly First “WFUMB Center of Excellence” was established in Dhaka in 2004. On 24 February 2004 an agreement was signed between the Bangladesh Society of Ultrasonography [BSU] and the WFUMB for this purpose. Prof. Hiroki Watanabe-WFUMB President and Prof. Kanu Bala-BSU President signed the agreement on behalf of WFUMB and BSU.
The 19th WFUMB COE Workshop was held on 3 March 2017, Friday at the Auditorium of the National Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Science, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Campus, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The topic of the workshop was “Controversies in Pregnancy Ultrasound”. 152 participants attended the workshop. Prof. Byung Ihn Choi-Korea is the Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the WFUMB COEs and Prof. Kanu Bala-Bangladesh is the Director of the WFUMB Center of Education Bangladesh. Bangladesh Society of Ultrasonography is the host organization.
The Centre of Education is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Address: 10/26 EASTERN PLAZA, 9TH FLOOR HATIRPOOL, DHAKA 1205
COE Director: PROFESSOR KANU BALA
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All WFUMB COE's are required to provide yearly activity reports:
BANGLADESH 2018 Report - click here >
The WFUMB Center of Excellence Romania was established in 2007 and it is located in Timişoara. It has also been an EFSUMB Ultrasound Learning Centre since 2014.
The ultrasound learning activities in Timisoara have a long tradition, since 1995, and until now more than 1500 physicians started their ultrasound experience in our center under the supervision of the center’s members.
Every year the center organize 2 courses of general ultrasound, 3 months each, several courses for students.
Since 2007 we had organized also eleven annual workshops with different topics: Interventional ultrasound, Contrast enhanced ultrasound, Ultrasound in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Elastography, Ultrasound in Emergencies, Clinical Abdominal Ultrasound, etc.
In 2008 our center was the organizer of EUROSON 2008, an event that brought together over 1,000 participants interested in ultrasonography, from 43 countries.
In 2013 we have organized the first EFSUMB Endorsed Course via telemedicine, involving 2 centers: Timişșoara, Romania and Szeged, Hungary.
In 2016 we organized together with Chişinău Ultrasound Learning Center from Moldova the first workshop in cooperation with WFUMB.
We shall continue our educational activities in ultrasonography and our center is open for everybody that wants to learn ultrasound or looks to improve their experience.
COE Leader: Ioan Sporea
COE Head of Centre:
COE Staff:
