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FW: [Career/Job Issues (including UP)] RE: Cheazy schools!!!From: DuBose, Terry (DuboseTerryJ@uams.edu)Thu May 24 14:11:04 2007
-----Original Message----- From: webmaster@sdms.org [mailto:webmaster@sdms.org] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 6:49 PM To: forums@sdms.org Subject: [Career/Job Issues (including UP)] RE: Cheazy schools!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MESSAGE: We will all fall under the same title....maybe Ultrasonographer??? A Sonographer is one who performs the exam. Ultrasound or sonography is the performance of the exam. Personally I never liked the word ultrasonographer. IMO. -------------------------------------- I have been working through the verbiage with my English teaching sister. -------------------------------------- This is for the Stephen McLaughlin Memorial Lecture on the topic given me by -------------------------------------- the conference committee: "The Profession's Identity - Words & Actions Matter". This will be my considered opinion, and certainly not the LAW... but I have spent some time thinking about these things... about 15 years. I think we can just throw out the "ultra..." anything except for Ultrasound as a term of physics meaning high frequency acoustics. Our founding leaders (not me) chose "Sonography" and its derivatives over 30 years ago; our registry and society are "... for Sonography", so our profession is "sonography" and our language needs to reflect that term. I agree, "Ultrasonography" requires too much ink, time, breath, and tongue wagging to ever come into general usage. Besides what does ULTRA add? It seems redundant and unnecessary. As to "sonography" being the performance of the exam, sonography does not sound like a verb to me. The act of performance seems to call for a verb. So let me pose the question to you here... would the best verb be "to sonogram", "to sonograph", or "to sonographically scan"? "Sonographic" is obviously the adverb/adjective form of the noun "sonogram"; as in "sonographic machine/instrument", or "sonographic examination." But I am having trouble with the verb or gerund form, which I assume should be "sonogramming" or "sonographing." These would be analogous to "photographing." I know these sound strange, but we are a relatively new profession and we need a linguistic format for publications and speaking. Any assistance or suggestions welcome. Thanks, Terry Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM Associate Professor & Director Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP 4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563 Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA 501-686-6510 or 501-686-5948 DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu http://www.uams.edu/chrp/sonography/ http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm http://www.io.com/~dubose/ --------------------------------------------------------------- There has been a new posting in the SDMS Discussion Forums --------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: jpbaker --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.sdms.org/members/forums/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=2226 Terry I do not know if this will help you. I asked Don about some words Duplex and Sample Volume were two words he "coined" while doing his research in Doppler, He is not sure about insonify or insonification. A word he also used a lot but is not sure if they "coined" it. Photographing sounds a lot better than sonographing. I agree I would prefer scan Joan P. Baker Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
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