General Abdomen
This introductory course is a combination didactic and hands-on training program that will guide the sonogrpaher or the sonography student through the basic concepts of abdominal ultrasound. The didactic 8-hour portion of this course includes basic comprehensive fundamentals of ultrasound physics and knobology.  The student will be able to describe the abdominal cross-sectional anatomy of the major upper abdominal systems and recognize normal sonographic anatomy of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, renals, spleen, aorta and IVC, known landmarks for routine measurements, and review of common pathology of the systems. The eight hour hands on will allow the student to become familiar with the scan planes necessary to produce images of a normal complete abdomen ultrasound. The course is not designed to be a substitute for a college or registry review program.
Normal course length is 2 days
Normal class size is 1 to 4 participants
15 hours of CME are available from SDM

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