DMSU 252 Clinical Sonography II
This course is designed to develop and improve upon students' independent ultrasonic skills in a diagnostic environment and 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.
Hours Weekly
16 hours off-campus clinical
Course Objectives
- Prepare the patient for the sonographic examination based upon the appropriate specialty.
- Prepare the exam room for the sonographic examination based upon the appropriate specialty.
- Using proper technique, perform the sonographic examination of appropriate specialty.
- Recognize normal and abnormal echogenicity of soft tissue structures.
- Identify spatial relations on the sonogram: anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, left and right, etc.
- Select the proper transducer for the exam and patient body habitus.
- Demonstrate ultrasound image optimization through proper use of instrumentation.
- Apply appropriate ultrasound department protocols, as needed.
- Analyze the patient’s chart for pertinent information.
- Demonstrate appropriate patient care skills.
- Demonstrate the proper departmental procedure for permanent image acquisition (PACS, hard copy storage, etc.).
Course Objectives
- Prepare the patient for the sonographic examination based upon the appropriate specialty.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded competencies
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)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
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.
- Prepare the exam room for the sonographic examination based upon the appropriate specialty.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded competencies
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)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
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.
- Using proper technique, perform the sonographic examination of appropriate specialty.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded competencies
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)
Prepare the patient for the sonographic examinations based upon the appropriate specialty.
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.
- Recognize normal and abnormal echogenicity of soft tissue structures.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- quizzes and exams
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Answer key
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify anatomical structures in the different sectional planes and compare the changes due to the pathology to normal anatomy.
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.
- Identify spatial relations on the sonogram: anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, left and right, etc.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Quizzes and exams, Graded Clinical Coordinator observation in the clinical setting
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Answer key, Clinical Coordinator Observation rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify anatomical structures in the different sectional planes and compare the changes due to the pathology to normal anatomy.
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.
- Select the proper transducer for the exam and patient body habitus.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded competencies
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)
Demonstrate how sonographic instruments work.
- Demonstrate ultrasound image optimization through proper use of instrumentation.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded competencies
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)
Demonstrate proper instrumentation of ultrasound equipment and proper scanning techniques and protocols of human body organs.
- Apply appropriate ultrasound department protocols, as needed.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded competencies
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)
Demonstrate proper instrumentation of ultrasound equipment and proper scanning techniques and protocols of human body organs.
- Analyze the patient’s chart for pertinent information.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded Clinical Coordinator Observation in the clinical setting
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Clinical Coordinator Observation Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
- Demonstrate appropriate patient care skills.
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Information Literacy Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
- Demonstrate the proper departmental procedure for permanent image acquisition (PACS, hard copy storage, etc.).
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded Clinical Coordinator observation of student in clinical setting
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Clinical Coordinator Observation Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.