Great refresher for procedures I do not routinely do.
Ben Cottrell - Chattanooga, Tennessee - April 2023
Testimonials
Next time I’m in need to brush up on my procedures HPC will be my first call. Excellent Hospital and Emergency Procedures Course with great and knowledgeable instructors! Thanks to all involved and keep up the great work!
Phenomenal course! I was nervous about coming, naive to the majority of the procedures presented, but I mastered so many new skills in 2 days. It was incredible! The instructors are all very knowledgeable and have patience with each individual student to the degree needed, providing helpful pearls of wisdom along the way.
Excellent course. Very helpful for novice to experienced learners with tricks and tips.
One of the best teaching courses I have ever attended.
The course was great. A lot of information provided, one on one hands on course. The instructors were all extremely helpful and patient. I had a wonderful time and learned a lot. Helped me gain confidence as a provider.
It is not an easy task to make high risk procedure techniques calm and inviting, but this course managed to do this across all levels of providers. Loved it.
I wanted to write a note to thank you both (and the rest of the faculty) for an excellent course earlier this month. I feel the hands on teaching, excellent sim models, good quality applicable case studies, and direct feedback made for a wonderful learning opportunity. Since the course I have used what I learned a couple times already. I had more confidence in my choice of procedural sedation for a synchronized cardioversion for symptomatic tachycardia. I also felt more competent during an intubation for a patient with severe alcohol withdrawal prior to air transport to the ICU. Thanks again for an excellent educational opportunity!
My HPC course was phenomenal. I attended the one-day version which was long and intense and full of valuable instruction. We had just the right amount of demonstration to get us started but then we jumped right into hands-on practice. It was great to be able to repeat procedures over and over until I got muscle memory. There were plenty of instructors and practice stations to stay busy. It was well worth the money.
Great course and worth every penny! A must for new clinicians and for those a little rusty.
Dr. Esherick and his staff are excellent teachers. Their knowledge on ultrasound guided procedures and diagnostic ultrasound imaging are second to none. They also provide a very good evidence base approach to the methods. There is a good amount of hands-on practice which is super valuable. The staff is also very personable and easy to talk with. I would definitely consider taking this course again in the future.
Outstanding course with excellent, experienced instructors. Great way to get more comfortable with procedures when you’re feeling a little rusty or want to get more familiar with ultrasound. High quality simulators and some normal human models as well.
The online prep in combination with the in person course was great. No need to sit in boring lectures before getting to practice the actual procedures. Good equipment and help from the instructors. Definitely makes me feel more confident and ready to perform on patients
Highly recommend this course. Lectures and hands on were practical for every day real life
This course was wonderful. Instructors are very experienced and knowledgeable. They gave thorough explanations to each procedures with one to one instructions. Its a lot of hands-on practices to reinforce the information. I wish I had this course during my early training.
I am excited to take back the knowledge and skills that I have gained in this course. I am confident that it will add value to my patient care. I feel well equipped to bring these skills to the bedside for my day to day practice.
I had informed my agency that I was taking your course to expand my “tool belt” to which they responded, “education does not equal experience”. I agree, but I am also aware that without the education/training, no acute care facility will even consider me.
There are not enough positive adjectives to describe your instructors, and I want to highlight a few of them. I have struggled for years with ultrasound. ALL of your instructors made it easy, but the radiologist (forgive me, his name escapes me) gave me the “aha” moments. I now know what I am looking at/for. Caleb, Tyler, and I believe the other was Clint- were incredibly encouraging. They identified why I was struggling with certain maneuvers and gave positive feedback which would begin with something like, “You almost have it, but try this-“.
I made a post on LinkedIn about my experience and tagged your organization. I hope it will inspire others who are looking to enhance or refresh their skill set. One of my friends is the former chief of trauma surgery at a hospital here in Charleston, and a retired naval commander. I told him all about my experience. He told me education like I received was invaluable because I learned the best way as opposed to the haphazard “On the Job Training”.
Thank you for assembling such a fine group of individuals to help me achieve my goals.
Thanks for the continuing opportunity to use the skills I learned at HPC to teach the next generation of family doctors. I found a massive PE the ER had completely missed this year thanks to a cardiac ultrasound and sent the patient for thrombectomy and she is doing great.
Absolutely wonderful course! Definitely planning to take more courses in the future.
This was one of the most effective and useful CME’s I have ever taken. I feel like it has given me a great deal of new information as well as significantly improved my procedural skills. I have strongly recommended it to all my co-workers. I feel much more confident in my skills and decision making as a result of this course.
I took the one day Hospital Procedures Course on June 4 in Washington, DC. I thought it was excellent and couldn’t wait to use some of the things I’d learned. I worked my ICU shift at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring MD on June 6 and shortly after getting to work I had to put an A-line in a severely dehydrated 91 year old man. A-lines have been my nemesis and I was excited to see if the procedures I’d learned in the course would help. The patient had arteries the size of a pin but I was able to use the techniques I’d learned to successfully cannulate his radial artery in a relatively timely way. I was thrilled and it really boosted my confidence. Thanks for presenting such a great course. I’m excited to keep using these techniques and I know they will enhance my practice.
It was by far the BEST conference I’ve been to in my 30 years of practice. Thank you all so much. Just awesome!
This course is hands down one of the best investments I have made as a nurse practitioner.
Just did this class in Vegas. Amazing great class learned so much from great group.
Absolutely amazing training. Worth every penny!
I attended the course in Las Vegas one week ago. Today I performed my first intubation and central line/ IJ placement. Both went very well: successful first attempts without complications. I felt very empowered by the training I had just had and I feel like I really knew what I was doing based on the course you taught me. So, thank you!
There are a few special physicians in each of our careers who bend and shape the way you think, care and ultimately deliver the kind of medicine we all dreamed of when we started on this journey to heal; Dr. Esherick and Dr. Rutherford both fall into this category. As a former graduate from VCMC, I learned how to intubate, place chest tubes, do lumbar punctures, do focused ultrasound in the ER, run ATLS/FAST scans, and use ultrasound for central line placement among many other procedures. The common denominator is that these two experienced physicians taught me how to do them all with confidence and expertise beyond which I thought I was capable of. I am now practicing as a Hospitalist and there isn’t a situation or a procedure with which I’m faced that I can’t look back and have the solid foundation of competence due to their insights. I wholeheartedly recommend you to experience their seminars and feel that your time and energy will be rewarded.
I trained under Dr. Esherick and Dr. Rutherford during my residency. They are both excellent instructors of hospital procedures, and are the main reason that I feel very competent with my skills. When you take this course, you will improve your technique to successfully perform the procedures safely. Thus, you will become more comfortable in providing best practices within your hospital setting.
“Excellent amount of hands-on experience with equipment and simulators.”
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“Attitude of lecturers was very non-threatening (quite unlike ACLS/ATLS courses), which was much better for true adult learning.”
“Very succinct course provides competence with procedures that are standard of care!”
“Practical information coming from physicians using it daily in their practices”
“Excellent. Better than cadaver course at ACEP.”
“Great lectures and handouts also. This course was better than the ACEP cadaver course plus the TCEP Sonogram course!”
“Excellent course! I can’t wait to attempt these procedures on live patients and know that I’m able to provide these services to patients that I care for.”
“The most educational course for procedures! Manikins are the best. Instructors are dedicated to us learning.”
“Comprehensive. Very well organized. Taught by clinicians with lots of experience. Excellent course for any hospitalist who is seeking to learn, re-learn, or fine tune their procedural skills!!”
“I just completed the ultrasound guided procedure course this past weekend and it was great. I would like to express my gratitude and admiration for the teaching styles of both instructors. I can finally say that I understand ultrasound!”
“I am very impressed with the thoroughness and comprehensive approach to this course. I had an opportunity to see, learn and use equipment for the first time in 10 years… this is a must have refresher for anyone more than 5 years out of training.”
“Good faculty, hands-on training. An excellent experience.”
“Excellent program overall. Very student friendly.”
“What a great course this is! You have every reason to be proud of this accomplishment. The learning environment you created really works!”
“I appreciated the small class size and hands-on opportunities. A definite benefit was time and opportunity to talk with the other doctors who were also practicing skills.”
“Drs. Esherick and Rutherford are excellent instructors. Both were very helpful and I found Dr. Esherick to be exceptionably personable!”
“This is the second time I’ve worked with Dr. Esherick and the first time with Dr. Rutherford. I find them both clear, concise communicators. The material presented definitely translates to the real world.”
“Hands-on experience, patient instructors and no pressure leads to an overall great experience.”
“Speakers were clear, competent, professional, well-organized and planned. Great course!”
“Drs. Rutherford and Esherick are outstanding instructors providing clinically relevant and practically useful approaches to myriad core hospital procedural skills as well as the state of the art technology. The course exceeded my expectations.”
“Best medical course that I have ever taken. Well organized, informative, practical, hands on training. Very useful!”
“I really enjoyed this course. Good review of introduction to common hospital procedures with lots of opportunity to practice skills. Would definitely recommend!”
“Instructors are outstanding for different levels of experience and accommodate accordingly. Touched upon procedures that are widely used and up to date research was extremely helpful”
“The course was outstanding, well worth the money spent. Gave me skills that will enhance my practice starting today!”
– Derek Elliott, Bar Creek, Pennsylvania
“If you are reading this testimonial, trust me and sign up now before it gets filled. This is more than you expect. A lot of education and confidence in a short time. Very classy and professional.”
“Fantastic course. One of the most useful CME’s I’ve ever attended!
“Excellent course. Wish I had this during residency. Love the skills lab. I strongly recommend this course to anyone who deals with Acute Care.”
“The HPC two-day course has been one of the best workshops I’ve ever attended. The instructors are great teachers, resourceful, and approachable. The course itself is designed very well. They cover a lot of ground in two days and it’s not easy to fit all of the matter into two days, and still make sure we understand and grasp the topics well. It is made possible because of a very well-designed curriculum and a lot of hands-on training. The mannequins are high-quality. Practicing on them is as close as you can get to the real thing.
What’s most important is, that at the end of the course, I feel fully confident that I can go back to work and perform these procedures successfully in real-life situations. It’s totally worth the cost! This course is a must for anyone who wants to gain confidence in doing Emergency and Critical Care procedures.”
“The HPC Course provides essential fundamentals for the early diagnosis management and resuscitation of the trauma patient. This course is an excellent resource for any provider taking care of the injured patient.”
“I have been to many CME presentations in the past and the Hospitalist and Emergency Procedures course ranks at the top. Hands on models and great instructors with a low student faculty ratio made this an outstanding experience. Thanks!!”
“As a Hospitalist who covers the ICU and works nights alone in a 40-bed hospital, this course was precisely what I needed. The reinforcement provided for procedures such as CVCs and Alines gave me the boost of confidence required to feel competent. I was SO impressed with the quality of teaching and hands-on practice afforded to each participant. My mind was absolutely blown by the instructors who demonstrated such expertise in these areas, particular in regard to ultrasound competence. It was at the level you would expect from radiologists and pulmonary critical care. I was actually incredibly inspired by their diagnostic skills (determining volume status based on the diameter of the IVC!!!), and I felt they gave me an invaluable gift by putting ultrasound as an additional tool in my hand. Highly recommend this to anyone providing hospital care. Thank you so much.”
I was just at your course in Vegas this past weekend and it was fabulous and I wanted to thank you for such a valuable and well done course. I have started to tell my colleagues about the course and that it is so worth their time.
More specifically I am working the ED today and was able to dive in using my ultrasound training for an evaluation of a trauma. Because of the great course and instruction, I was able to feel confident in what I was doing and looking at. You guys are great and I just wanted to encourage you to keep up the good work in helping us be better providers of health care.
Thank you to Dr. Esherick, Dr. Rutherford, Dr. Javed, Dr. Gorit and the many others who helped situate a well organized course. I have recommended this course to the nurse practitioners here in Michigan seeking to learn, refine and further strengthen procedural skills. The physicians demonstrated not only their experience, but were able to teach it in an approachable manner. This is an excellent course that helped me gain more confidence in my procedural skills. As a nurse practitioner it is rare to find clinicians that are this invested in teaching their students.
I attended your conference in Long Beach this past weekend, it was amazing! I have come back to work excitedly telling my colleagues about it and my medical director as well.
This class is definitely worth taking. It increases your skill level and confidence. It was worth every penny. All instructors are top-notch and very helpful
I just completed the two day Procedures Course in Las Vegas and want to thank you and your entire team for an exceptional learning experience. Not only do Dr. Rutherford and the entire group have an incredible knowledge and skill set, they have the ability to transfer that knowledge and skills to others. I walked away with the confidence that only passionate instructors and multiple repetitions can give.
Just wanted to let you know that in my first two days back to the ED after your course I had a difficult intubation, a chest tube and an a-line in a hypotensive septic patient. Though I’ve done all these procedures before, having just had your course , I was extra confident! It was one of the best classes I’ve attended and I’m telling everyone to attend!
Thank you so much. I had a great time and learned so much! I was pleased that I was not the only one in attendance who had not done the procedures before (so I wasn’t intimidated) and I felt supported by the instructors.
On returning to the ED from the course, I had a lumbar puncture and an intubation on my first shift back. Both went well and no issues at all. These were procedures I have performed before, but I noticed how much slower and with more purpose and methodical I was going through them. I used Joseph’s thumb technique on the LP and his guidance on finding the landmarks was helpful. The key I had been missing for many years in doing intubations was the placement of the tip of the Mac blade into the base of the vallecula. By doing this, the view is improved very notably. I intubated a sick patient in less than 30 seconds once the meds were in effect.