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DMSU 257 Clinical Practicum V

This course is designed to increase students' confidence, competency, and timing of their ultrasonic skills in a diagnostic environment that may include scanning in campus laboratories, private offices, hospital rotations, and outpatient radiology centers. Sonography experience depends on the specialty track in which the student is enrolled.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

DMSU 254

Hours Weekly

32 clinical hours per week

Course Objectives

  1. Employ laboratory tools and equipment in an advanced clinical setting to differentiate normal from abnormal findings.
  2. Relate the skills acquired during lectures to evaluate sonographic pathologies in an advanced clinical setting.
  3. Formulate and support verbally diagnostic conclusions as they relate to an advanced clinical setting.
  4. Apply accepted procedures and protocols for all learned sonographic studies to an advanced clinical setting.
  5. Demonstrate time management skills while performing sonographic examinations in an advanced clinical setting.

Course Objectives

  1. Employ laboratory tools and equipment in an advanced clinical setting to differentiate normal from abnormal findings.

    This objective is a course Goal Only

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Graded competencies in the clinical setting

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Competency rubrics

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.

  2. Relate the skills acquired during lectures to evaluate sonographic pathologies in an advanced clinical setting.

    This objective is a course Goal Only

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Graded competencies in the clinical setting

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Competency rubrics

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

  3. Formulate and support verbally diagnostic conclusions as they relate to an advanced clinical setting.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Graded competencies in the clinical setting

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Competency rubrics

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

  4. Apply accepted procedures and protocols for all learned sonographic studies to an advanced clinical setting.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Graded competencies in the clinical setting

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Competency rubrics

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

  5. Demonstrate time management skills while performing sonographic examinations in an advanced clinical setting.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Graded competencies in the clinical setting

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Competency rubrics

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

    Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)

    To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.