We Can Be your teaching assistant!
Maverick Medical Education offers top-notch anesthesia school training programs that focus on ultrasound-guided nerve blocks and point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) assessment. These programs are designed to help nurse anesthesia programs meet the Council on Accreditation’s requirements for USGRA and POCUS training without additional faculty.
Our courses exceed the new COA requirements for training SRNAs!
How to get Started in your University Program
We offer 2 courses to be taken in combination, or separately:
1. Regional Anesthesia Basic Techniques
This course covers ultrasound basics, in-depth anatomical instruction, and extensive, hands-on needle guidance techniques for basic peripheral nerve blocks. This block training is performed on our patented pulsatile cadaver specimens which offers the most realistic block training in medical education.
Nerve Blocks Taught:
• Adductor Canal • Axillary • Femoral • Genicular • Interscalene/Supraclavicular • PENG/LFCN • Popliteal Plexus • Popliteal Sciatic
2. Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with Vascular Access
This course focuses on cardiac, pulmonary, and gastric volume assessment. Vascular access with ultrasound assistance is also taught to include peripheral and central vascular access. These courses provide students with a comprehensive academic understanding of the topics, practical skills related to the topics, practiced in a hands-on lab under the watchful eyes of industry experts to gain the confidence to apply these skills.
Topics Include:
• Introduction to Ultrasound • Gastric Assessment • Pulmonary Assessment • Cardiac Assessment • eFAST Assessment • Venous Access • US Guided Vascular Access • US for Internal Jugular Access
Pick The Modality That Works Best For Your Courses
Online Didactic Modules Only
In this online-only option, the Basics and/or POCUS courses are offered in an online training format. The didactic portion is designed for each instructor to “decide and drop” the modules into the course where appropriate in the semester. The online modules easily fit into any Learning Management System to provide smooth access for teachers and students. We also offer a variety of analytic tools to monitor student success.
Online Didactic + Cadaver Lab
In this option, the online didactic portion is combined with a scheduled 2-day training lab at your location. We provide a “flipped classroom” style in which students will complete the modules prior to scheduled lab dates. Students will practice their skills using our patented pulsatile cadavers and live models in a clinical hands-on learning environment with expert Maverick instructors.
Testimonials
We have had a great experience bringing in Maverick to our nurse anesthesia program over the last few years. The hands-on USGRA and POCUS training is very helpful for real world experience with our students. Also, the ease of adoption into our program and the responsiveness of the Maverick team were amazing. They were entirely collaborative with the logistics of getting us started using their training.
Maverick gives our students top of the line, hands on, regional instruction in our lab. Students get one-on-one instruction from knowledgeable CRNA’s that is unbelievable! They provide an educational experience that is top notch!
The collaboration with Maverick and Arkansas State University at our 2024 lab was an excellent teaching and learning opportunity. The Maverick workshop experience was so positive that the A-State Nurse Anesthesia Program will be incorporating these workshops annually. The Maverick instructors were very professional, respectful and taught a phenomenal workshop. Maverick helped in every facet of the set up process and we were extremely happy with the outcome of the workshop With the current trend of multimodal anesthesia today, this workshop is a must!
Our university has a longstanding relationship with Maverick and residents continually rate their lab as one of the highlights of the program. There is no comparison for the pulsatile cadaver-based training provided by Maverick. I have no doubt this education contributes to the greater than 3000 regional anesthetics performed by our residents annually. We’re pleased to have recently added the POCUS training to prepare the next generation of anesthesia providers.
