Class and Clinical Internship

This 52-week program comprises an initial 5 weeks of dedicated classroom instruction, concentration on anatomy, basic equipment operation and fundamental skill development in cardiac ultrasound. The remaining 47 weeks comprises 4 days of clinical hands on instructions in our clinical hospital training sites and 1 day of classroom instruction. Our students rotate their clinical training in several local hospitals. These rotations provide our students with a broad range of clinical experiences.

Students will have Clinical Observation in areas of:

• Cardiac Catheterization
• Graded Exercise Testing
• Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Open Heart Surgery
• EKG’s

Educational concentrations in areas of:

• Cardiac Anatomy & Physiology
• Adult Echocardiography
• Ultrasound Physics
• Instrumentation

Clinical Internship and Rotations

There are several clinical rotations throughout 6 different hospitals within a 20-mile radius of the school located in Hartford, Connecticut. These clinical settings provide both a small community and major teaching hospital experience that will help develop the essential skills necessary to become a registered technologist and working professional. We also have long distance clinical sites at Danbury and Baystate Medical Center. Below is a complete list of internship and rotation sites:

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

Bradley Memorial Hospital & Health Center

New Britain General Hospital

ECHN (Manchester Memorial and Rockville Hospitals)

University of Connecticut Health Center

Baystate Medical Center

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