Ultrasound News: Reimagining the Sonography Lab
By Keith Loria
Vol. 22 No. 2 P. 26
One of the top-ranked programs at Kettering College in Kettering, Ohio, is sonography. Kettering’s students have access to a lab that mimics a real-life hospital setting, with seven learning stations set up around the room, each featuring a patient bed, ultrasound machine, and a flat-panel, medical-grade HD display. Unfortunately, the technology in the sonography lab was overly complicated and often faulty, causing students and faculty members to become increasingly frustrated with using certain stations, ultimately depreciating the intent of the real-life learning experience. That became the genesis of a reimagined lab that would simplify and improve the experience for all involved. According to Susan Price, PhD, a professor and the director of the medical sonography program at Kettering College, when outlining the wants and needs for the sonography lab project, leaders of the depa