OUF Theory 16 May 2024
16th May 2024
Chaired by Professor Christoph Lees, this one-day comprehensive foundation course is ideal for O&G trainees, specialist midwife 
sonographers, and anyone starting their scanning career and working towards their RCOG qualification.
It will cover the theoretical elements of the two compulsory RCOG Basic Ultrasound Modules via a series of lectures from the experienced and highly qualified obstetrics team at QCCH and St Mary’s Hospital, London. It will also give a useful introduction to the intermediate modules.
The course will cover the following topics:
- Introduction: What you are going to learn and why?
- What the RCOG modules require
- How ultrasound works and safety
- Databases, documentation and communication
- Setting up the machine for scanning: TV and TA ultrasound; knobs, functions and probes
- Scanning the normal early intra-uterine pregnancy up to 12 weeks, measuring embryonic structures and CRL
- Diagnosing miscarriage
- Presentation of Case Studies
- Biometry, amniotic fluid and the placenta
- The Anomaly Scan: FASP criteria
- Multiple pregnancies: what to look out for
- Fetal growth and assessment in the third trimester
Registration Fees
Standard registration £150
HEE London sponsored ST2 and ST3 trainees free with the following criteria
- Be a London O&G trainee with an HEE training number and
- Currently, be in either your ST2 or ST3 training year
If you are a London HEE Sponsored Student please click the register button and select the £0 options.
The course will cover the following topics:
Introduction: What you are going to learn and why?
What the RCOG modules require
How ultrasound works and safety
Databases, documentation and communication
Setting up the machine for scanning: TV and TA ultrasound; knobs, functions and probes
Scanning the normal early intra-uterine pregnancy up to 12 weeks, measuring embryonic structures and CRL
Diagnosing miscarriage
Presentation of Case Studies
Biometry, amniotic fluid and the placenta
The Anomaly Scan: FASP criteria
Multiple pregnancies: what to look out for
Fetal growth and assessment in the third trimester
Chair of our Obstetric Ultrasound Foundation course, Professor Christoph Lees, is an international authority on fetal assessment and in particular the use of Doppler ultrasound to assess the health of the baby.
He leads research in this area, scanning in labour, and non-invasive fetal surgery. Research projects include TRUFFLE — studying infants with fetal growth restriction — and human studies of high-intensity focused ultrasound.
infants with fetal growth restriction — and human studies of high-intensity focused ultrasound.
Professor Lees is:
Professor of Obstetrics at Imperial College London
Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Head of Fetal Medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Centre for Fetal Care, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital
Visiting Professor at the Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Belgium
Trustee, International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Chairman of the ISUOG Doppler and vascular imaging group member of the ISUOG Safety Committee