GE 002 — Principles of Physics — 45 Clock Hours/4.5 Quarter Credit Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This is a conceptual physics course for non-science majors. This course aims to facilitate understanding of the rules of nature by learning the foundations. This course covers forces and motion, conservation laws, heat, fluids, vibrations and waves, electricity and magnetism, and sound and light. Students will study the concepts of physics with minimal application of mathematics. This is a General Education Course
GE 021 — Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology — 66 Clock Hours/6.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will discuss the essential basics of structures and functions of the human body systems. Topics on all major organ systems will be examined while considering them in the state of health versus the state of disease, focusing mainly on structures. Various clinical implications and possible deviations from the norm of each organ system will be brought up throughout the course. This is a General Education Course.
GE 110 — Critical Thinking — 45 Clock Hours/4.5 Quarter Credit Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course teaches students the skills they need to think for themselves—skills they will call upon in this course, other college courses, and the world that awaits. This course covers the core concepts with real-world examples and practice exercises. This is a General Education Course.
GE 112 — Algebra I — 45 Clock Hours/4.5 Quarter Credit Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course gives students the math skills that provide a foundation for more advanced courses. Students will explore writing and solving linear and nonlinear equations, powers and exponents, quadratic equations, polynomials and factoring, graphing, and linear inequalities and functions. This is a General Education Course.
GE 230 — Written & Oral Communication — 45 Clock Hours/4.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will explore the fundamental analog and digital oral and written communication skills to help create professional written and verbal communication within their careers. This introduces various communication methods and produces language that articulates information to connect a speaker to an audience. This is an online General Education Course.
CS 300 — Introduction to Cardiology 1 — 72 Clock Hours/7 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
The course introduces anatomy, physiology, diagnostic tests, embryology and development, normal ECG interpretation, and physical examination of the heart and cardiovascular pharmacology. This course establishes foundations for the knowledge necessary to perform adult echocardiograms successfully.
CS 300L — Laboratory Introduction to Cardiology 1 — 72 Clock Hours/3.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
The lab is concurrent with the lecture portion of the course. Students will practice the protocols and scanning techniques within the lab. This course will set the foundation of protocols so students can build on them with advanced techniques and measurements taught in other courses.
CS 301 — Introduction to Adult Echocardiography 1 — 72 Clock Hours/7 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
The course covers the concepts, techniques, measurements, calculations, and protocols that pertain to a normal adult transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE). This course establishes foundations for performing and interpreting a normal TTE that would be used later to understand abnormalities and diagnose cardiac pathologies. Students will gain an understanding of the role an echocardiographer plays in the diagnosis of cardiac diseases by understanding what the criteria are for “normal.”
CS 301L — Laboratory Introduction to Adult Echocardiography 1 — 72 Clock Hours/3.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
This lab is concurrent with the lecture portion of the course. Students will practice the protocols, measurements, and scanning techniques within the lab. This course will expand the echocardiographic protocols taught to include all the echocardiographic measurements and more advanced scanning techniques.
CS 400 — Introduction to Cardiology 2 — 72 Clock Hours/7 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
This course is a progression of CS 300 Introduction to Cardiology 1. This course builds on the foundation and principles discussed in the previous course. The common disease processes affecting the cardiovascular system will be covered with instructions on their pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, physical examination, lab values, and ECG appearance.
CS 400L — Laboratory Introduction to Cardiology 2 — 72 Clock Hours/3.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
This lab is concurrent with the lecture portion of the course. Students will practice the protocols, measurements, and scanning techniques within the lab. This course will expand the echocardiographic protocols taught in CS 300L and CS 301L to include all the echocardiographic measurements and ECG practice and introduce vascular protocols.
CS 401 — Introduction to Adult Echocardiography 2 — 72 Clock Hours/7 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
This course is a progression of CS 301 Adult Echocardiography 1. This course builds on the foundations set in the previous course regarding echocardiographic protocols and scanning techniques. The common disease processes affecting the cardiovascular system will be covered with an emphasis on their sonographic appearance and evaluation with echocardiography.
CS 401L — Laboratory Introduction to Adult Echocardiography 2 — 72 Clock Hours/3.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
This lab is concurrent with the lecture portion of the course. Students will practice the protocols, measurements, and scanning techniques within the lab. This course will expand the echocardiographic protocols taught in CS 300L, CS 301L, and CS 400L to include all the echocardiographic measurements and ECG practice and introduce vascular protocols.
CS 520A — Registry Preparation Course: Anatomy and Physiology — 8 Clock Hours/0.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
Registry Preparation Courses (RPC) are advanced cardiac classes taught by experts in cardiac sonography. Students have learned basic cardiac skills during cardiac sonography courses 1-4 and cardiac sonography lab courses 1-4. RPC classes will build and enrich knowledge and skills that will provide the student with success in cardiac sonography. RPC is offered once a month for six (6) consecutive months. Please check with instructors for dates.
This course gives the learner an overview of duplex imaging of the extracranial and cardiovascular systems. Course study includes normal and abnormal cross-section anatomy, hemodynamics, spectral analysis, clinical signs and symptoms, indications for exams, definitions of terms, scanning protocol, instrumentation sonography techniques (grayscale conventional, color Doppler, color with spectral Doppler, and power Doppler) and examples of common carotid, vertebral and Subclavian artery pathology.
Clinical hands-on training integrated with didactic instruction is the primary focus of this program.
CS 520B — Registry Preparation Course: Pathology 1 — 8 Clock Hours/0.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
Registry Preparation Courses (RPC) are advanced cardiac classes taught by experts in cardiac sonography. Students have learned basic cardiac skills during cardiac sonography courses 1-4 and cardiac sonography lab courses 1-4. RPC classes will build and enrich knowledge and skills that will provide the student with success in cardiac sonography. RPC is offered once a month for six (6) consecutive months. Please check with instructors for dates.
This course gives the learner an overview of duplex imaging of the extracranial and cardiovascular systems. Course study includes normal and abnormal cross-section anatomy, hemodynamics, spectral analysis, clinical signs and symptoms, indications for exams, definitions of terms, scanning protocol, instrumentation sonography techniques (grayscale conventional, color Doppler, color with spectral Doppler, and power Doppler) and examples of common carotid, vertebral and Subclavian artery pathology.
Clinical hands-on training integrated with didactic instruction is the primary focus of this program.
CS 520C — Registry Preparation Course: Pathology 2 — 8 Clock Hours/0.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
Registry Preparation Courses (RPC) are advanced cardiac classes taught by experts in cardiac sonography. Students have learned basic cardiac skills during cardiac sonography courses 1-4 and cardiac sonography lab courses 1-4. RPC classes will build and enrich knowledge and skills that will provide the student with success in cardiac sonography. RPC is offered once a month for six (6) consecutive months. Please check with instructors for dates.
This course gives the learner an overview of duplex imaging of the extracranial and cardiovascular systems. Course study includes normal and abnormal cross-section anatomy, hemodynamics, spectral analysis, clinical signs and symptoms, indications for exams, definitions of terms, scanning protocol, instrumentation sonography techniques (grayscale conventional, color Doppler, color with spectral Doppler, and power Doppler) and examples of common carotid, vertebral and Subclavian artery pathology.
Clinical hands-on training integrated with didactic instruction is the primary focus of this program.
CS 520D — Registry Preparation Course: Pathology 3 — 8 Clock Hours/0.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
Registry Preparation Courses (RPC) are advanced cardiac classes taught by experts in cardiac sonography. Students have learned basic cardiac skills during cardiac sonography courses 1-4 and cardiac sonography lab courses 1-4. RPC classes will build and enrich knowledge and skills that will provide the student with success in cardiac sonography. RPC is offered once a month for six (6) consecutive months. Please check with instructors for dates.
This course gives the learner an overview of duplex imaging of the extracranial and cardiovascular systems. Course study includes normal and abnormal cross-section anatomy, hemodynamics, spectral analysis, clinical signs and symptoms, indications for exams, definitions of terms, scanning protocol, instrumentation sonography techniques (grayscale conventional, color Doppler, color with spectral Doppler, and power Doppler) and examples of common carotid, vertebral and Subclavian artery pathology.
Clinical hands-on training integrated with didactic instruction is the primary focus of this program.
CS 520E — Registry Preparation Course: Measurement Techniques and Maneuvers — 8 Clock Hours/0.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
Registry Preparation Courses (RPC) are advanced cardiac classes taught by experts in cardiac sonography. Students have learned basic cardiac skills during cardiac sonography courses 1-4 and cardiac sonography lab courses 1-4. RPC classes will build and enrich knowledge and skills that will provide the student with success in cardiac sonography. RPC is offered once a month for six (6) consecutive months. Please check with instructors for dates.
This course gives the learner an overview of duplex imaging of the extracranial and cardiovascular systems. Course study includes normal and abnormal cross-section anatomy, hemodynamics, spectral analysis, clinical signs and symptoms, indications for exams, definitions of terms, scanning protocol, instrumentation sonography techniques (grayscale conventional, color Doppler, color with spectral Doppler, and power Doppler) and examples of common carotid, vertebral and Subclavian artery pathology.
Clinical hands-on training integrated with didactic instruction is the primary focus of this program.
CS 520F — Registry Preparation Course: Clinical Care and Safety, Instrumentation, Optimization, and Contrast — 8 Clock Hours/0.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
Registry Preparation Courses (RPC) are advanced cardiac classes taught by experts in cardiac sonography. Students have learned basic cardiac skills during cardiac sonography courses 1-4 and cardiac sonography lab courses 1-4. RPC classes will build and enrich knowledge and skills that will provide the student with success in cardiac sonography. RPC is offered once a month for six (6) consecutive months. Please check with instructors for dates.
This course gives the learner an overview of duplex imaging of the extracranial and cardiovascular systems. Course study includes normal and abnormal cross-section anatomy, hemodynamics, spectral analysis, clinical signs and symptoms, indications for exams, definitions of terms, scanning protocol, instrumentation sonography techniques (grayscale conventional, color Doppler, color with spectral Doppler, and power Doppler) and examples of common carotid, vertebral and Subclavian artery pathology.
Clinical hands-on training integrated with didactic instruction is the primary focus of this program.
CS X01 — Clinical 1 — 400 Clock Hours/13.0 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of UT 301, CS 400, CS 401, CS 401L, and CS 402L courses with a “C” or better.
CS X01 is twelve (12) weeks of Level 1 externship integrated within AOSCUT module courses. Externship expectations will vary depending on the externship site assignment for each student. This allows the student to relate theory to practice in a supervised situation.
The student’s ability to perform correct protocols and acquire effective patient diagnostic information is evidenced by meeting specific objectives and competencies in each clinical specialty area. Level 1 competency evaluation will be signed off by clinical instructors on Trajecsys and reviewed by the clinical coordinator.
A Clinical Instructor (CI) Preceptor Handbook is provided for each site supervisor. The handbook guides the CI and department staff regarding the expectations of the ultrasound extern. CS X01 also consists of assignments on Moodle for ARDMS preparation. The emphasis will be on the SPI preparation to encourage students in CS X01 to take the ARDMS SPI exam before graduation.
ARDMS preparation in adult echocardiography is also provided. There are virtual labs on Moodle that can be used in case clinical site assignments are unavailable for reasons determined by the clinical site and the school. The clinical coordinator may give virtual lab assignments for extra learning opportunities or make-up assignments.
CS X02 — Clinical 2 — 400 Clock Hours/13.0 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of UT 301, CS 400, CS 401, CS 401L, CS 402L, and CS X01 courses with a “C” or better.
CS X02 is twelve (12) weeks of Level 2 externship integrated within AOSCUT module courses. Externship expectations will vary depending on the externship site assignment for each student. This allows the student to relate theory to practice in a supervised situation.
The student’s ability to perform correct protocols and acquire effective patient diagnostic information is evidenced by meeting specific objectives and competencies in each clinical specialty area. Level 2 competency evaluation will be signed off by clinical instructors on Trajecsys and reviewed by the clinical coordinator.
A Clinical Instructor (CI) Preceptor Handbook is provided for each site supervisor. The handbook guides the CI and department staff regarding the expectations of the ultrasound extern. CS X01 also consists of assignments on Moodle for ARDMS preparation. The emphasis will be on the SPI preparation to encourage students in CS X02 to take the ARDMS SPI exam before graduation.
ARDMS preparation in adult echocardiography is also provided. There are virtual labs on Moodle that can be used in case clinical site assignments are unavailable for reasons determined by the clinical site and the school. The clinical coordinator may give virtual lab assignments for extra learning opportunities or make-up assignments.
UT 200 — Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation — 62 Clock Hours/6 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of GE 112.
This course teaches the fundamentals of ultrasound physics and instrumentation. The material is
presented to heighten the educational experience of the future sonographer and prepare the student for the SPI exam with the ARDMS and the ARRT.
UT 201 — Sectional Anatomy — 48 Clock Hours/4.5 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of GE 021.
This course introduces cross-sectional human anatomy, which can be seen in sonograms and other imaging modalities. Cross-sectional anatomy emphasizes the physical relationship of structures, which is the basis of understanding sonographic images. Cross-sectional anatomy is the first building block to understanding what is required when performing ultrasound images. Students will learn to recognize different organs, muscles, vessels, and other body parts in their relationship. An interactive computer program will be used as a teaching tool.
UT 301 — Patient Care for Ultrasound Professional — 12 Clock Hours/1 Quarter Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Completion of courses in preceding modules with a “C” or better.
The course gives the sonography student an overview of the profession and basic patient care. This course teaches the essential role sonography and the sonographer play in medicine. The ARDMS “Sonography Principles and Instrumentation” exam consists of 10% patient care, which this course will thoroughly prepare the student to pass.
