Get Right to the Heart of the Matter
Cardiac sonography and vascular sonography are two of the most sought-after specialties in today’s allied health care field. You can gain a competitive advantage by studying both in NSU’s integrated program.
Your diagnosis can help save patient’s lives. As a cardiac sonographer, you’ll use ultrasound imaging to assess, detect, and diagnose diseases of the heart. Your skills in vascular sonography will allow you to identify anatomical and physiological changes caused by diseases of the arteries and veins.
Our curriculum gives you an edge with extensive, hands-on laboratory experience, including the use of a 3D echocardiography simulator (typically reserved for physician training). You’ll develop your skills through an intensive 12-month clinical externship. Your completed degree will ready you for national professional registry exams and empower you to excel in this competitive field.
- Program length: 122 total credit hours in 27 months (15 months didactic and 12 months clinical externship)
- Program format: on-campus lecture and hands-on training in our ultrasound laboratory and one online course per semester
- Class start: once per year every May
- Location: NSU Tampa Bay Regional Campus in Clearwater, Florida
- Student pass rate to-date of 97% for the American Registry for Diagnostic.
- The first Allied Health degree level program in the U.S. to provide the HeartWorks advanced simulations technology to students.
- Accredited for both adult echocardiography and non-invasive vascular sonography, two of the most sought-after specialties of diagnostic medical ultrasound, by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), the largest programmatic accreditor in the health sciences field.