HSC 475 - Clinical Education VI

3 Hour(s)
Preliminary competencies and clinical competencies are completed by this semester. Students who fail to complete the clinical competencies by the end of this semester will not be able to graduate. Clinical instructors will evaluate the student’s performance by reviewing finished sonograms (or required series of sonographic images) produced by the student. All clinical evaluations and paperwork is completed on-line through E*Value and is submitted at the mid- and end-points of each clinical rotation. Clinical instructors will observe the student during each scanning procedure undertaken at the facility. Students will successfully complete all remaining clinical competency examinations, under the supervision of the clinical instructors, prior to graduation. The clinical competencies will be assigned a grade by the Clinical Education Coordinator/dedicated cardiac sonographer. Clinical experience rotations will include pediatric echocardiographic examinations and adult echocardiography pathology examinations. Faculty assesses each student during scanning labs offered with each didactic unit taught this semester. After completion of introductory scan labs and didactic material, students perform their preliminary competencies. Clinical instructors will evaluate the student’s performance by reviewing finished sonograms (or required series of sonographic images) produced by the student. All clinical evaluations and paperwork is completed on-line through E*Value and is submitted at the mid- and end-points of each clinical rotation.