Called Campus Ultrasound, its the first clinic of its kind in the country to support on-site learning.
Next month, Camosun College and Island Health will open an outpatient training ultrasound clinic where patients will receive diagnostic testing and students will get hands-on training.
The clinic has two general ultrasound rooms and two echocardiogram rooms, allowing four students to be trained simultaneously with access to real patients, advanced simulation and help from experienced Island Health sonographers and radiologists. Students training at the clinic will administer ultrasound scans used to diagnose, treat and monitor a variety of medical conditions.
Island Health expects about 5,000 general ultrasound exams and 3,000 echocardiogram exams will be done annually at the new clinic, which will be staffed by cardiac sonographers, general sonographers and clerical support.The Health Ministry contributed $1.2 million in startup funding to the clinic. The 24-month full-time diploma program, within the college’s School of Health and Human Services, covers core sonographic work and one of three specialty disciplines: general, cardiac or vascular.Pippa Cilliers, a first-year diagnostic medical sonography student, said she was thrilled when she was accepted into the program in 2021, when just 16 students were selected.
“It is amazing to already be able to apply the knowledge and skills we’re learning in class with real patients,” said Cilliers.
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