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OB sonographer communication with patientFrom: saskia (ridem@msn.com)Wed Mar 24 17:08:02 1999
I am an ARDMS sonographer (OB/AB) and RVT, of 12 years experience, working "locum tenens" for a national agency, here in Baltimore. My client hospital is a rotation site for UMBC students, and employs 2 relatively recent graduates. With all due respects, and at the risk of sounding harsh... I can well understand such a physician directed policy of "omerta" by sonographers. Compared to the 4 year BS program at Univ. of OK (run by Jean Lea Spitz), and the 2+ yr program at Bellevue CC in Washington State, the 2 yr program in Eau Claire WI, and others, I find that UMBC graduates here , with the very short length of the program and lack of actual "hand's on" experience under didactic supervision at the clinical sites, ... are ill-prepared to extemporize. Of course this will vary with the maturity and communication skills of each sonographer, but the 7 students and 2 graduates that I have worked with from the UMBC program, make "this post" more of a comment on the qualifications of the UMBC graduates , than on the role of sonographer- patient communication. I am sorry that this will sound so harsh....but I would vote with the Radiologist, who may well be the best judge of that particular sonographer's knowledge base, and communication skill. I DOUBT ( IMHO) that this is really a sonographer vs. physician issue, on a professional level. You may "flame" me at ridem@msn.com
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