Ultrasound Technician

What they do :

An Ultrasound Technician, often called a diagnostic medical sonographer or simply a sonographer, operates special equipment that uses sound waves to help diagnose patients’ ailments. They work directly with patients and physicians. Ultrasound technicians may specialize in obstetric and gynecologic sonography, abdominal sonography, neurosonography, breast sonography, vascular sonography or cardiac sonography. They can work in a hospital or a community clinic.

Licenses/Certifications :

• None

Education needed :

• Associate’s Degree
• (Bachelor’s Degree is recommended)

Local schools offering this program :

• Cypress College
• Loma Linda
• Orange Coast College
• Platt College

Organizations :

• American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography – http://www.ardms.org