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CSP’s program is offered via hybrid delivery: Online asynchronous coursework (theory) combined with in-person hands-on labs with instructors and a clinical experience at the end of the program. Students also utilize open lab time for extra practice. This program requires significant in-person time for classes and open lab practice time to ensure students become proficient at the skills and competencies needed to become successful healthcare professionals.
DMS offers different start dates for each concentration. General starts in both spring and fall, while Echo begins only in fall.
Click below to explore the Echocardiogram program and its extensive focus on the heart.
The AAS in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (DMS) program at Concordia St. Paul is a strategically structured program to equip you for immediate career placement. You’ll gain core DMS skills across a broad range of sonography applications. Students also learn deep technical insight to operate specialized equipment that uses sound waves to “see” inside the human body.
You’ll also study human anatomy and physiology to prepare you to capture diagnostic images, take measurements, analyze results, and prepare preliminary findings for physicians to use when finalizing their diagnoses of patients’ issues.
Specialty skills in cardiac sonography apply specifically to a rapidly growing area of diagnostic care across the medical field. With expertise and skills in echocardiography, CSP students can go on to careers assisting cardiologists and applying 2D and 3D imagery of the heart and blood flow for leading edge assessment of heart functions.
DMS skills gained at CSP become crucial for helping care teams make accurate patient diagnoses.
Diagnostic medical sonographers are trained to operate specialized equipment that sends sound waves into areas of the patient’s body. Cardiac (echo) sonographers specialize in imaging of the heart, its function, and blood flow, while general sonographers specialize in all other areas of the body, such as obstetric, gynecologic, and the abdomen, small parts, vascular, musculoskeletal, and neurosonography.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the diagnostic medical sonography job outlook is expected to continue growing much faster than average, and the median pay is approximately $73,000 per year.
The Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program (General Concentration) is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of JRC-DMS.
The program may also include the address and phone number:
9355 – 113th St. N, #7709
Seminole, FL 33775
CSP’s Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (DMS) prepares students to take the ARDMS board examinations (SPI and a specialty board) upon completion of 12 months of full-time clinical ultrasound experience. To see what is required to sit for each ARDMS board examination, please click here. The ARDMS board examinations (SPI and a specialty board) are required to practice in each state. In addition, currently New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oregon are the only states with approved legislation mandating the licensure of sonographers within those particular states as an additional requirement. To see the additional requirements for each of those states, please click here.
To prepare competent entry-level Abdominal – Extended and Obstetric and Gynecologic sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Graduates from our program learn to:
This information in this section is reported annually and numbers are based on the previous year. 2021 numbers will be updated in December 2022.
Our world-class faculty use their decades of experience to nurture your success from the first day of class all the way to graduation— and beyond.
CSP was ranked in the Top 10 “Career Ready” Institutions & Top 10 “Career Ready” Feedback for First-Generation College Students in the 2021 SkillSurvey Career Readiness.