# DMS209 Clinical Education III

Diagnostic Medical Sonography Department

**Course Description:** This course provides students with continued hospital/clinic setting work experience. Students refine scanning techniques, increase speed of exam completion, and develop professional work habits. Emphasis will be placed on developing critical thinking approaches to sonographic examinations as it relates to forming differential diagnoses of abnormal findings. Students will conduct sonographic examinations under direct and indirect supervision of staff sonographers and a clinical instructor, while continuing to complete competency and proficiency objectives.

**Credit Hours:** 4.00

**Prerequisites:** All of: [DMS208](https://www.ecpi.edu/course/DMS208 "View DMS208")

**Corequisites:** None

## Programs offering this course

- [Diagnostic Medical Sonography (AAS)](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs/diagnostic-medical-sonography-associate-degree)

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