• Clare Richardson, Stewart Bernard, and Vi Am Dinh.
• School of Medicine (C.R., S.B.), Department of Emergency Medicine (V.A.D.), and Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care (V.A.D.), Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California USA. cmrichardson@llu.edu.
• J Ultrasound Med. 2015 Aug 1; 34 (8): 1479-84.

AbstractThe rise in popularity of ultrasound imaging has seen a corresponding increase in demand for effective training tools such as phantom models. They are especially useful for teaching and practice of invasive procedures, such as fine-needle aspiration of lesions of the head and neck. We have created 2 gelatin models out of inexpensive, commonly available materials that can be used in sequence to learn head and neck fine-needle aspiration. Fundamental skills can be learned first on the flat, rectangular model, whereas the second, cylindrical model more closely represents human anatomy and can be used to develop more advanced technique. © 2015 by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.

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