DMS209 Clinical Education III

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. Upon successful course completion, students will have refined their scanning skills and completed specific competencies and/or proficiencies under the direct and/or indirect supervision of a clinical instructor.

Prerequisite: DMS208