On this freezing mid-winter day, all of our dedicated students showed up bright and early for our session. Only 1 student couldn’t make it. Many had come along frozen early roads…

 

The morning commenced with several students sharing their impressions with their colleagues as to their experiences using the SonoSim simulator. Ibtisam, Marie and Hibah discussed particular highlights with the team prior to commencing the educational session. The main topic today was recognizing normal fetal anatomy and the respective planes that are used for obtaining the biometric measurements.

 

Again, it was a most interactive session where a major focus was for the students to correctly determine fetal lie based on various sonographic images and the proper identification of key anatomic structures. The students were called to the board to demonstrate fetal lie and interpret various sonographic images. This was not the simplest notion for some of the students. As such, using a baby doll, the students were able to model various fetal presentations and lies in order to reach the correct answer. This turned into a game and was repeated many times until the entire class was able to arrive at the correct answer!

 

At the end of the session, the students planned next week’s observatory/hands-on days with SANA…