Ultrasound technicians work to diagnose internal medical conditions.
Ultrasound technicians are also known as sonographers. They work in the diagnostic area of health care. Their job involves using ultrasound machines to produce images of internal organs, tissues, blood flow and body structures. Those images are used to evaluate and diagnose medical conditions and illnesses. Becoming an ultrasound technician requires a college education in a program for ultrasound techs or diagnostic medical sonography. There are several schools in the Norco, California, area offering sonography programs.
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University, 26 miles from Norco, offers ultrasound technician programs in diagnostic medical sonography and diagnostic cardiac sonography. Prerequisites classes include patient care methods, medical terminology, algebra and human anatomy and physiology.
Students can choose from three tracks within the program. Track one takes 24 months to complete and combines two program paths; registered diagnostic medical sonography (RDMS) and registered vascular technology (RVT). Track two is a 12-month program for registered diagnostic cardiac sonography which focuses on cardiac function and diseases. Track three is also a 12-month program but is only open to students who are already registered diagnostic medical sonographers. This track focuses on arteries, veins, blood flow direction and assessment, clots and valve competency and results in a registered vascular technology certificate. Students will learn in the classroom and through clinical experience.
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA 92350
800-422-4558
llu.edu
Cypress College
Cypress College, 35 miles from Norco, offers a program in diagnostic medical sonography. Students will get training in general ultrasound of the abdomen, pelvis, obstetrics and superficial structures. Prerequisite coursework includes radiography patient care, radiologic electronics and survey of disease and medical sonography theory. Core degree work is completed in four terms; two fall, one spring and one summer. Classes include sonography physics, OB/GYN and abdominal scanning, cross sectional imaging, pathology and small parts, as well as Doppler techniques. Clinical education, which allows students to practice what they have learned, is also a part of the curriculum. Students will spend 24 hours per week in clinical education during the second term and 32 hours per week in the third and fourth terms. Program graduates are awarded a certificate.
Cypress College
9200 Valley View Street
Cypress, CA 90630
714-484-7000
cypresscollege.edu
Orange Coast College
Orange Coast College, located within 40 miles of Norco, offers a program in diagnostic medical sonography which takes two years to complete. Graduates receive an associate in science degree. Prerequisite classes include health occupations and anatomy and physiology. Core courses include human diseases, pathophysiology, intro to scanning practice, sonography physics and instrumentation, advanced vascular ultrasound and sonographic review. Each term except the first includes clinical experience coursework to help students practice what they have learned in the classroom.
Orange Coast College
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
714-432-5072
orangecoastcollege.edu
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