Cardiovascular Sonography

The Cardiovascular Sonography program prepares students for careers as sonographers, skilled health care professionals who use high-frequency sound waves to produce images of the body's internal structures.

Employment opportunities include hospitals, clinics, physician offices, medical laboratories, government agencies and industry.

For Admissions questions, contact:
919-866-5420
[email protected]
 
For Health Sciences program questions, email:
[email protected]

The following steps are required to be classified as a pre-Sonography student:

• Apply to Wake Tech
• Complete the Sonography program information session
• Submit official transcript(s) to [email protected].
• Apply for financial aid and veterans benefits, if applicable
• Once admitted, follow the steps to enroll on the New Student Checklist

Acceptance into the Cardiovascular Sonography (CVS) program is not guaranteed. The limited-enrollment program uses a competitive acceptance procedure with a point system, not a waiting list, to determine who can register for CVS classes. Applicants are ranked based grades earned in the general education classes required for the program. Grades of "C" or better are required in all program-related classes.

To be eligible to submit the program application, PHY-110: Conceptual Physics and PHY-110A: Conceptual Physics Lab (or a college-level physics lab) must be completed with a grade of "C" or better.

Students also must meet the prerequisite to register for the following courses without a corequisite to be eligible to submit the program application. It is strongly recommended that these courses be completed by the program application deadline with a grade of "C" or higher for competitive-entry consideration:

• BIO-163: Anatomy & Physiology or BIO-168 and BIO-169
• ENG-111: Writing and Inquiry
• MAT-143, MAT-152, MAT-171 or equivalent math class
• COM-110, COM-120 or COM-231

NOTE: Biology classes must have been completed within five years of the first CVS class, and any math class must have been completed within 10 years of the first CVS class.

Submit the following by March 31 for Fall entry:

• A completed Cardiovascular Sonography program application
• A copy of your active listing on the North Carolina Nurse Aide Registry
• Official ATI TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills) scores. Review the TEAS Testing page for more information. (NOTE: Only two TEAS tests are allowed per calendar year, with a minimum of 30 days between tests.)

If accepted into the Cardiovascular Sonography program, students are required to attend a mandatory departmental orientation and complete all clinical site requirements.