Cardiovascular Technology Leadership Program

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it's cardiovascular technologist um we

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do ultrasound of the heart and all the

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veins and arteries of the body um we

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also cover some of the organs like the

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kidneys we do ultrasound throughout the

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body for a cardiologist or a vascular

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surgeon I was initially attracted to the

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program um kind of unsure about where I

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wanted to end up in life I know I wanted

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to go into Healthcare but not really

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sure where so once I found out about

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this program I was really excited about

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the timeline and how involved I would be

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in healthcare in the beginning you start

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out with the classroom setting so you're

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learning the basics of the

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cardiovascular system and adding the

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pieces together and so then you're able

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to apply that then in scan lab so you go

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to scan lab then when you go out into

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the clinical settings later on you're

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able to take that and be able to

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recognize what's abnormal in a patient

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and so you're getting lots of clinical

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hours I would say the growth from last

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August when we started till now has been

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insane I it's a lot more than I would

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imagined uh especially just with the

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fast-paced learning environment you are

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learning a ton of stuff and retaining a

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lot of information at one time so it's

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just been crazy to see going from not

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knowing anything about ultrasound how to

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scan how to do any test to being being

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able to do a multitude of tests and do

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them offici ly and you know at a high

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high level is the most impactful

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experience was probably the first time I

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got to scan a patient by myself um and I

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realized that I can do this as a student

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they try to get you as much Hands-On as

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you can and learn in different

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situations and so um I ended up being

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able to scan a heart transplant patient

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which was like incredible um and kind of

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a Sur Real experience I feel very

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prepared you know our teachers are great

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they taught us so so much information

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and you know our preceptors out in

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clinicals they've done a great job for

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preparing us it's a very small class

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size so the relationships with the with

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the classmates are great we were able to

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be pretty close-knit throughout the

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whole program for preceptors and

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instructors they are really focused on

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helping us learn and giving us the best

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that they can so that we can be the best

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that we can be they have always strived

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to give us all the tools in our toolbox

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and we use our toolbox every day so

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really important information that

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they've given us from the very beginning

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and it's it's given us it's caused a lot

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of growth throughout the program even in

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the short 18 months I think it's

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important to they've always drilled into

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us to not just be picture takers um but

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to really understand why you're taking

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the pictur so you can take what you've

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learned in the classroom setting and be

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able to apply it and understand why

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you're doing what you can do so you can

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take the step kind of above and beyond

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one of the biggest goals I've achieved

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is confidence throughout the program I

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was was really nervous with patience in

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the beginning now I'm really confident

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with that I feel like it's more than

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prepared me for the workforce I wanted

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to be a well-rounded sonographer I feel

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like I'm coming out of the program

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pretty well-rounded so I feel like I'm

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able to walk into new situations with a

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whole lot more confidence than I could

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before in um professional settings as

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well as personal settings this program

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really helps you stand out in comparison

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to other programs um all the preceptors

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have have always said like this program

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is so great they really set you up for

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success and I think that's exactly what

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they

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