Southside Regional Medical Center offers a diagnostic medical sonography program. Program admission requirements include prior completion of a two-year health education program and college courses in science, math, pathophysiology and patient care. Coursework includes introduction to sonography, instrumentation, abdominal and small parts and advanced imaging. Students will complete 70 credit hours and graduates will receive a certificate.
Southside Regional Medical Center
200 Medical Park Blvd.
Petersburg, VA 23805
804-765-5000
srmconline.com
Northern Virginia Community College offers an associate of applied science degree in diagnostic medical sonography. Students must complete 14 hours of prerequisite courses, including anatomy and physiology, orientation to healthcare and the sonography profession, math and ultrasound acoustical physics. The core degree program takes five semesters to complete. Classes include ultrasound physics instrumentation, advanced abdominal sonography, breast sonography and obstetrical and gynecological sonography. Coursework also includes lab study and training and clinical experiences.
Northern Virginia Community College
6699 Springfield Center Drive
Springfield, VA 22150-1913
877-408-2028
nvcc.edu
Tidewater Community College offers an associate in applied science degree program for those interested in diagnostic medical sonography. Prerequisite general education subjects include communication, critical thinking, information literacy, personal development and social and cultural understanding. The program, which begins each fall and takes five semesters and 72 credit hours to complete, accepts 15 students. Students must be CPR-healthcare provider certified. The first two semesters include classes such as elements of physics, medical terminology, orientation to healthcare, introduction to sonography, ultrasound imaging and sectional anatomy. Second-year courses include ultrasound seminar, introduction to vascular ultrasound and electives in humanities and social science. Coursework also includes four classes of clinical education, which allow students to practice what they have learned in the classroom.
Tidewater Community College
121 College Place
Norfolk, Virginia 23510-1938
800-371-0898
tcc.edu
George Washington University Medical Center is in Washington, D.C., about three miles from Virginia. The school offers certificate and bachelor's degree programs in sonography. Prerequisite courses are required in subjects such as science, math and humanities. Both the certificate and bachelor's programs offer instruction in three sonography practice areas: general, vascular and cardiac. Students in the certificate program can choose one area of study or a curriculum focusing on two of the three areas. Students in the degree program will study all three areas of sonography but only get clinical experience in two areas of their choosing. All students will take introduction to physics of sonography and multiplanar sectional anatomy. Other classes taken will depend on the area of sonography studied. They can include vascular technology, echocardiography, seminar in ultrasound and pelvic, obstetric, high resolution and abdominal sonography.
George Washington University Medical Center
Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Program
900 23rd St. NW #6180
Washington, DC 20037
2020-994-3650
gwumc.edu