PEARLS POCUS Education

PEARLS stands for POCUS for Emergency and Acute care in Resource-Limited Settings. 

We are an global health ultrasound training program that is dedicated to educating doctors on point of care ultrasound (POCUS) techniques. 

In 2022, the inaugural PEARLS Course was run in Port Vila (Vanuatu) where doctors received handheld ultrasound probes to plug in to their smartphones, and undertook 3 days of ultrasound training from a visiting Australasian team of sonographers and ED physicians, followed by ongoing coaching, online lecture series, and remote imaging reviews. 

Since, PEARLS has visited to Kiribati, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Nepal, Botswana, and plans to expand into other parts of the Pacific, Asia, and Africa are underway!  

Here, we present the PEARLS Lecture Series - designed to continue supporting doctors from across the globe, by providing up to date POCUS lectures from experts across the globe - with a particular focus on POCUS in low resource settings.