Vascular Sonography: Accepted Student Information

Students will be required to attend a mandatory orientation session. Information about this meeting will be sent with the email of acceptance.

This will include a Criminal History Information Request through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Students will be given information about the background check and drug screening requirement and how to meet it once accepted.

If you’ve recently completed the Sonography A.S. degree program at EFSC, you must complete a new background check and drug screening for the Vascular certificate program.

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 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 Vascular Sonography affiliate or clinical education center shall perform approximately 1,500 completed patient examinations, including production of permanent records and reports, per year, per student equivalent.

The overall volume of procedures in which students participate throughout the program will include a minimum of 30% peripheral arterial vascular system procedures, a minimum of 30% peripheral venous vascular system procedures, and a minimum of 30% extra-cranial arterial vascular system procedures. 

All accepted students are required to purchase and are covered by the Allied Health Liability Insurance and also the Education/Training Student Accident Insurance through EFSC. The cost of this insurance coverage is included in course fees and it is charged once every twelve months.