Sonography Program Mission, Goal and Outcomes
Mission
The mission of the Wake Tech Medical Sonography program is to provide students with a comprehensive education in medical sonography. The program is committed to providing the health care community with competent and professional entry-level sonographers.
Goal
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 students will:
- Demonstrate knowledge of skills basic to the medical sonography profession (cognitive) for abdominal-extended and obstetrics and gynecology sonography concentrations.
- Demonstrate competence in skills basic to diagnostic medical sonography (psychomotor) for abdominal-extended and obstetrics and gynecology sonography concentrations.
- Students will demonstrate professionalism (affective) for abdominal-extended and obstetrics and gynecology sonography concentrations.
Program effectiveness measures
- 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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