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Oct 18, 2024
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ADI 812 - Clinical Education II
Course Department: Health Sciences
6 Credits
Total Clinical Hours: 360
Course Description:
This course is one semester and is a continuation of Clinical Education. This course is designed for students who are pursuing a diagnostic medical sonography degree. In addition to doing the procedures learned in the previous semester, the student observes more complex examinations and gradually assumes an increasing amount of responsibility and confidence for the performance of those procedures along with operating equipment, scanning image quality, identifying normal and abnormal anatomy and pathology. This course will help students gain the basic knowledge of sonography and will help provide entry-level skills related specifically to the sonographer’s job duties while enhancing their overall knowledge when making important life decisions.
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face
Course Fees: None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
• Interact appropriately with the patient, physicians, and staff.
• Identify the pertinent clinical questions and the goal of the examination.
• Recognize significant clinical information and historical facts from the patient and the medical records, which may impact the diagnostic examination.
• Review data from current and previous examination(s) to produce a written/oral summary of technical findings, including relevant interval changes, for the reporting physician’s reference.
• Select the correct transducer type and frequency for examination(s) being performed.
• Adjust instrument controls including examination presets, scale size, focal zone(s), overall gain, time gain compensation, and frame rate to optimize image quality.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Doppler ultrasound principles, spectral analysis, and color flow imaging relevant to and in the AB and OB/GYN specialty.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pathophysiology relevant to and in the AB and OB/GYN specialty.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform sonographic examinations of the appropriate organs and areas of interest according to profession and employing institution protocols relevant to and in the AB and OB/GYN specialty.
• Recognize, identify, and document the abnormal sonographic patterns of disease processes, pathology, and pathophysiology of the organs and areas of interest. Modify the scanning protocol based on the sonographic findings and the differential diagnosis relevant to and in the AB and OB/GYN specialty.
• Perform related measurements from sonographic images or data.
• Utilize appropriate examination recording devices to obtain pertinent documentation of examination findings.
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