Cardiac Sonography: Accepted Student Information
Students will be notified by mail of their acceptance into the Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Sonography program. Once accepted, students will be required to complete the steps outlined below. Click the topics to review requirements and information for students admitted to the Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Sonography Advanced Technical Certificate program.
Students must attend a mandatory orientation session. Information about this meeting will be sent with the letter of acceptance.
This will include a Criminal History Information Request through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Students will be given information about having the background check and drug screening performed once accepted.
Even if you’ve recently completed the Sonography A.S. degree program at EFSC, you must complete a new background check and drug screening.
Students will be placed at clinical sites and are required to have the same immunizations that the State of Florida requires for high school students:
DTaP
IPV
MMR
Hepatitis B series
Varicella
Flu shot
Visit the Florida Department of Health web page for more information on school immunization requirements.
Our maximum student enrollment is in proportion with the volume and variety of sonographic procedures, equipment, and personnel available for educational purposes. The number of students assigned to a clinical affiliate/clinical education center will be determined by the following:
• Student/clinical staff ratio not greater than one-to-one
• Student/work station ratio of not greater than one-to-one
Eastern Florida State College will provide students with a variety of care settings
in which sonographic and or other diagnostic procedures are performed on in-patients
and outpatients. These settings will include the following:
• Ambulatory care facilities
• Emergency/trauma
• Intensive/critical/coronary care
• Surgery
• Angiography/cardiac catheterization
Each Adult Cardiac and Pediatric Sonography affiliate or clinical education center shall perform approximately 1500 completed patient examinations, including production of permanent records and reports, per year, per student equivalent.
All accepted students are covered by Allied Health Liability Insurance and also the Education/Training Student Accident Insurance through EFSC. The cost of this insurance coverage is included in course lab fees and it is charged once every twelve months.