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Ultrasound Schools

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Hiring will be brisk over the next decade for ultrasound professionals. The U.S. Labor Department predicts that openings for ultrasound technicians, assistants, and sonographers will grow by nearly 20 percent by the year 2014. Ultrasound schools across the country offer a wide range of professional development, degree, and certification classes for people who want to join this fast-growing field. Medical college and university ultrasound schools provide full, four-year sononographer degree programs as well as one- and two-year training programs that qualify ultrasound techs and assistants. Short, one-year certification programs are also available at some ultrasound schools.

Coursework for ultrasound professionals may include patient orientation, anatomy, ultrasound equipment operation, basic physics, pathophysiology, medical ethics and law, abdominal techniques, gynecological technique, and instrumentation. Students learn about sound speed, frequency, and wavelength as they apply to tissues and internal organs. Students also participate in hands-on labs and training at ultrasound schools.

None of the states in the country currently requires licensure in ultrasound or diagnostic medical sonography, however many employers expect their technicians and other professionals to seek American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) certification. Once they enter the field, ultrasound professionals can continue their training, advancing to supervisory or leadership roles in hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, and laboratories. Many health care workers enroll in ultrasound schools to broaden their resumes.

Ultrasound professionals will find an increasing demand for their services as more and more doctors and hospitals turn away from traditional radiation imaging methods in favor of safe ultrasound technology, the U.S. Labor Department reports.

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U.S. Labor Department