MSK Ultrasound Hands-on course 1-2 October 2025 - Wrightington UK
This hands-on consultant led MSK ultrasound course will feature practical scanning using a variety of ultrasound machines with delegates placed in small groups to maximise experience and practice.
Delegates will have the opportunity to rotate around stations and try new and different machines in small groups and arranged to work with colleagues of a similar experience with ultrasound (predetermined by a pre-course questionnaire) to enhance the learning.
This hands-on consultant led MSK ultrasound course will feature practical scanning using a variety of ultrasound machines with delegates placed in small groups to maximise experience and practice.
Delegates will have the opportunity to rotate around stations and try new and different machines in small groups and arranged to work with colleagues of a similar experience with ultrasound (predetermined by a pre-course questionnaire) to enhance the learning.
This hands-on consultant led MSK ultrasound course will feature practical scanning using a variety of ultrasound machines with delegates placed in small groups to maximise experience and practice.
Delegates will have the opportunity to rotate around stations and try new and different machines in small groups and arranged to work with colleagues of a similar experience with ultrasound (predetermined by a pre-course questionnaire) to enhance the learning.
Venue
Wrightington Hospital Conference Centre
Wrightington Hall Conference Centre, Wrightington Hospital Hall Lane, Appley Bridge, WN6 9EP, UK
Please Note: Accommodation is not included but we will look to have negotiated rates available for our guests attending in-person. All tickets are fixed to a 20% VAT rate. To request an invoice by email, please email educateenquiries@medica.co.uk
The course is heavily practical orientated but interspersed with small lecture-based talks reviewing some theory around imaging.
The course will cover joints and soft tissues both in the upper limb and lower limb and help to assess pathologies that are commonly seen in daily MSK practice involving the large and small joints of the musculoskeletal system. Specialities reviewed include pathologies encountered within Trauma & Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Sports & Exercise Medicine. There will be opportunities for Q&As after each presentation and discussions will be encouraged between delegates and faculty.
This course would be of interest to anyone practicing currently in MSK ultrasound and wishes to update skills and/or wishes to consider starting practice with MSK ultrasound.
This course will primarily target radiology consultants / residents / fellows / sonographers / practitioners / physiotherapists in the fields of general & MSK radiology, orthopaedics, sports & exercise medicine, rheumatology, general practice with MSK specialist interests and physiotherapy.
Key Highlights
Image optimisation and how to get the best out of your scan
Tips & tricks around MSK USS scanning
Review of big and small joints in the upper limb focussing on the hand and wrist, elbow and shoulder joints
Review of big and small joints in the lower limb including the foot and ankle, knee and hip joints
Review of common nerve entrapments and what to look for
Your faculty lead: Dr Subhasis Basu is a fellowship-trained Consultant Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine Radiologist holding a substantive post as Clinical Lead in MSK imaging at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Basu completed his medical training at St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London. His postgraduate training in clinical radiology took place in Manchester and the North West of England, followed by a dedicated sports imaging fellowship at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. Dr Basu’s practice involves reviewing and reporting X-rays, CT scans and MRI scans and also perform diagnostic ultrasound scans as well as treat various joint and soft tissue disorders with image-guided therapeutic injections.
Wrightington Hospital Conference Centre: Wrightington Hall was the home of the Wrightington family for several centuries before being bought by Lancashire County Council in 1918 with the purpose of turning it into a TB hospital. The hall has since been transformed into an educational facility, celebrating the pioneering work on joint replacement carried out at Wrightington Hospital by Sir John Charnley. Located within a short travelling distance of Preston, Manchester and Liverpool and conveniently only two minutes away from Junction 27 of the M6.
This course will attract 12 CPD points as per the Guidelines of the Royal College of Radiologists
Day 1 Upper Limb
0900-0915 – Introduction / Overview
0915-0945 – Imaging Optimisation & Knobology
0945-1015 – Lecture Ultrasound of the Shoulder and Demo
1015-1100 – Hands-on Session Shoulder
1100-1115 – TEA/COFFEE BREAK
1115-1200 – Hands-on Session Shoulder
1200-1230 – Lecture Ultrasound of the Hands & Wrist and Demo
1230-1315 – LUNCH BREAK
1315-1345 – Lecture Ultrasound and Intervention in the Upper Limb
1345-1445 – Hands-on Session Hands & Wrist
1445-1500 – TEA/COFFEE BREAK
1500-1530 – Lecture Ultrasound of the Elbow and Demo
1530-1645 – Hands-on Session Elbow
1645-1700 – Review & Feedback / Close of day
Day 2 Lower Limb
0900-0915 – Introduction / Overview
0915-0945 – Lecture Ultrasound of the Knee and Demo
0945-1100 – Hands-on Session Knee
1100-1115 – TEA/COFFEE BREAK
1115-1145 – Lecture Ultrasound of the Foot & Ankle and Demo
1145-1230 – Hands-on Session Foot & Ankle
1230-1315 – LUNCH BREAK
1315-1400 – Hands-on Session Foot & Ankle
1400-1430 – Lecture Ultrasound of the Hip and Demo
1430-1515 – Hands-on Session Hip
1515-1530 – TEA/COFFEE BREAK
1530-1645 – Hands-on Session Hip
1645-1700 – Review & Feedback / Closure of day
