About ASUM About ASUM Download the ASUM Application form here The purpose of ASUM is to promote the highest possible standards of medical ultrasound practice in Australia and New Zealand.
Diagnostic ultrasound is one of the most rapidly expanding branches of medicine.
Technological developments permit higher resolution images to be obtained with smaller and smaller transducers. As a result, ultrasound in now used to examine virtually every part of the body. The primary role of ASUM is to assist in the dissemination of scientific information, to provide education and to set standards of practice in this continually developing specialty. Several of the royal colleges include diagnostic ultrasound in their own area of interest, but only ASUM provides regular education in diagnostic ultrasound across all disciplines. ASUM's members include virtually all medical specialties, sonographer, physicists, engineers, veterinary surgeons and corporate representatives.