Students discuss legal, ethical, and psychological aspects of patient care as well as professional issues and concerns. Students focus on pathological conditions affecting the abdomen and identifiable with diagnostic imaging techniques. An extensive review of normal physiology is also presented. Continues Pathophysiology I, with focus on the disease process and disease states relevant to obstetrics, gynecology, and neurology. CR Covers the human anatomy from the cross-sectional perspective in longitudinal, transverse, coronal, and oblique planes.
Students analyze correlations with clinical diagnostic imaging techniques.
4 CR Presents basic concepts and terminology, as well as scanning protocols for the ultrasound examination of the abdomen. Topics include both normal and pathological states. 5 CR Presents current theory and scanning techniques for medical sonographers, focusing on obstetrics and gynecology procedures and pathologies. CR Presents the anatomy and pathophysiology of small human body parts. Intraoperative scanning focuses on surgical procedures.