Summer Semester - 1st year
1st 4 wks
SONO3021 Cardio-anatomy
This course is designed to familiarize the student with cardiac development, fetal circulation, and normal anatomy of the heart.
8wks
SONO3053 Echocardiography
This course is a continuation of SONO3021. Discussion includes scanning techniques, echocardiographic views, m-mode and Doppler imaging, cardiac disease processes, congenital anomalies, and cardiac hemodynamics.
Prerequisite: consent.
8wks
SONO3063 Clinical Sonography III (4 days/wk)
The student will continue to enhance knowledge and optimize scanning skills. Particular attention is given to improving scan acquisition time, extension of standard imaging protocols as required, correlation of laboratory and clinical data with sonographic appearance, and the recognition of case findings requiring an immediate response. Students will discuss exam findings with supervising sonographers and physicians.
Prerequisite: Admission to the program.
8wks
SONO3011 Sonography Practicum II
Provides directed hands-on practical laboratory experience tied to current and previous course-work. Protocols, instrumentation, standard and modified scanning techniques are discussed and practiced in a laboratory setting.
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