MSK Ultrasound Hands-on course on March 26-27, 2025 in Hastings, United Kingdom

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.

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.

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 15 CPD points as per the Guidelines of the Royal College of RadiologistsThis 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.

This course is also taking place on 1-2 October 2025