Archived Info

• Clinical instructor meeting September 9th, 2024

  • Here is the Zoom link for anyone that was unable to join us:

  • https://weber.zoom.us/rec/share/lTmkyJbRhxCNOXHpfGiQDe2KJCkuMUOzmvdXkyuM7hZn_0CUIzDDfpzzCeUfsogt.ckbFjK7n5H9DtNv6

  • Passcode: $B26RIrf

• We're excited to share that we will begin using the SonoSim program with the first year students this year. This includes online education modules and a simulation component that each student will have access to during the first 3 semesters of their program. 

Basic Student Schedules/Info:

• 1st year students 

  • Fall semester - 80 hours total

    • Students may begin these hours as soon as they have been cleared to enter your site as a student

  • Can do an additional 8-10 hours per week with no more than 24 hours carrying over to next semester

  • Classes and labs on-campus

  • Full time clinicals (24 hours per week) begins January and ends in December

  • Varied hours forms are required for hours completed outside of the above schedule or for hours completed on university holidays

• 2nd year students

  • 24 hours per week clinical hours January-December

  • Classes and labs (for them the first 3 semester, as mentors to the 1st years in their 2nd fall semester)

  • Students are assigned as mentors for the 1st year students and will be working with them throughout their final semester

Clinical logbook and competencies:

• Students will manage their own logbooks, but will require help and signatures from you as their CI

• Clinical hours must be documented and should be verified with your signature at the end of the semester

• A mid-semester and end-of-semester eval will need to completed each semester

  • The mid-semester eval can be filled out by any sonographer

  • The end-of-semester eval should be completed by the CI

• Competency requirements are listed on each end-of-semester eval and in the clinical logbook

  • Competencies can be documented on the end-of-semester evals or on the competency lists in the logbook

  • If multiple sonographers are signing off competencies - the competency lists should be used to document sonographer signatures/dates

• Examples of clinical logbooks for cardiac and medical students can be accessed by selecting the desired button from the links below

• Please see Logbook Video for CI's for a walk through of the semester evals and competencies

Areas of Focus:

• Fall Semester #1

  • Abdominal and cardiac courses, intro to SPI, and additional core classes

  • Labs focused on introductory cardiac and abdominal scanning

• Spring Semester

  • OB/GYN, vascular, cardiac 2, SPI, and additional core classes

  • Labs, optional open labs for cardiac students, medical student labs focused on transabdominal pelvics and OB phantoms

• Summer Semester

  • Superficial structures and pediatric exams, vascular 2, cardiac 3, QA/SPI review and additional core classes

  • Labs, optional open labs for cardiac students, medical student labs focused on venous leg and carotid scanning

• Fall Semester #2

  • Courses focus on board exam review, cardiac, abdomen, OB/GYN, thesis and additional core classes

  • Lab requirements to mentor the 1st year students - all second years will attend a minimum of 1 scanning lab with their mentees

Professionalism:

• Please communicate your expectations with your students

• Remain professional with all student interactions including in front of patients

• Provide respectful feedback and image critiques

• Students should be scanning on actual patients as much as possible. Please provide them these opportunities as much as possible

• Students also need to learn from the exams you are doing with them. As often as allowable, please provide appropriate opportunities for them to ask questions about images/pathologies encountered during exams performed

• Please reach out to Tanya or Ambree if you have any concerns about your students or need any help from us. We are happy to help!

• As best you can, please remember you are training your future co-workers. We expect them to engage and work hard, and know they will learn the most from you and your teams and the expertise and examples that you show them.