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Program Goals and Outcomes

The Wake Tech Medical Sonography program is committed to providing students with a comprehensive education in medical sonography and providing the health care community with competent and professional entry-level sonographers. It has the following goals:

  • To prepare competent entry-level sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills) and affective (behavior) learning domains for the abdominal-extended sonography concentration.
  • To prepare competent entry-level sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills) and affective (behavior) learning domains for the obstetrics and gynecology sonography concentration.

The program's performance is reflected through program effectiveness data, as defined by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon recommendation of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Diagnostic Medical Sonography:

  • Program completion rate
    The number of students who completed the program divided by the number who were initially enrolled in that cohort, plus students who re-entered with that cohort.
     
  • Five-year average job placement rate
    The number of students working in the medical sonography field within 12 months of graduation.
     
  • Five-year average credentialing pass rate
    The number of students who pass the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography and/or American Registry of Radiologic Technologists certification examination on the first attempt. This attempt must be made within six months of graduation from the program.
Sonography program effectiveness data

The program measures also its effectiveness through the following outcomes:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of skills basic to the profession
    • Utilize critical-thinking skills during the performance of sonographic exams to provide optimal results
    • Correlate ultrasound images with patient history and clinical findings
    • Demonstrate effective written and oral communication skills
  • Demonstrate competence in skills basic to diagnostic medical sonography
    • Efficiently perform basic abdominal, obstetrical and gynecological ultrasound examination at an acceptable level of competence
    • Provide proper patient care
    • Document complete and accurate findings of sonographic studies<
  • Demonstrate professionalism
    • Exhibit professional behavior in the clinical setting
    • Demonstrate effective communication to patients and members of the health care team
    • Exhibit professional behavior in the class and lab setting
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