Program Description
This full-time, 18-month Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program prepares competent entry-level sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains for the abdominal sonography-extended and obstetrics and gynecology sonography concentrations. Students navigate a deeply enriching and encompassing didactic and Scan Laboratory curriculum, while gaining hands-on clinical experience at various facilities throughout the Johns Hopkins Medicine Network and other highly recognized clinical facilities throughout the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan region.
Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ultrasound) uses high frequency sound waves to obtain diagnostic images of the human body. Program curriculum includes a thorough understanding of routine diagnostic exam practices with concentration in specific specialties such as: abdominal sonography, high-risk obstetric sonography, gynecologic sonography, sonography of superficial structures, neuro and pediatric sonography, breast sonography, and exposure to vascular sonography.
Graduates enrolled directly into the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medical Imaging Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program earn a Certificate in Diagnostic Medical Sonography. Graduates enrolled in a college affiliate of the program earn a Certificate in Diagnostic Medical Sonography from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medical Imaging as well as a medical imaging Bachelor of Science degree from their affiliated college.
Graduates of the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medical Imaging Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program are eligible to sit for the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography Abdomen and OB/GYN national board examinations.
Clinical affiliate facilities of the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program include: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins Hospital Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital Breast Center, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center and Center for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital, Johns Hopkins Suburban Hospital, Luminis Health Imaging, Luminis Health Breast Imaging Annapolis, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Mercy Medical Center and Center for Advanced Fetal Care, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, and St. Joseph’s Medical Center.
For more information, please see our catalog or contact Hayley O. Bartkus, Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program Director, at [email protected] or 410-223-1857.
For information regarding the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Cardiac Sonography, please contact Ashley Brown, Echocardiography Program Director, at [email protected].
Program Outcomes
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College Affiliations
- Bloomsburg University
- Immaculata University
- Notre Dame of Maryland University
- York College of Pennsylvania
- Millersville University
Program Accreditation
The Johns Hopkins Schools of Medical Imaging Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Diagnostic Medical Sonography. The Diagnostic Medical Sonography program is currently accredited by Maryland Higher Education.
The CAAHEP can be contacted at 727-210-2350 or [email protected]. Their offices are located at 9355 113th St. N, #7709 Seminole, FL 33775.
The JRC-DMS can be contacted at 443-973-3251 or [email protected]. Their offices are located at 6021 University Boulevard, Suite 500, Ellicott City, MD 21043.