Master of Medical Ultrasound
M6005MMU
- Credit points
- 72
- Qualification
- Level 9 - Master's Degree (Coursework)
- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
- Campus
- Clayton
This course enables you to develop clinical practice and research skills required for appropriately qualified health professionals to become sonographers. The clinical units include abdominal, breast, thyroid, reproductive, obstetrics, musculoskeletal, paediatric, neonatal, and vascular medical ultrasound. The course resources are provided mainly online. The material is structured to guide the student through the material on a weekly schedule with exercises that ensure the course retains a clinical focus. The final year of the course focuses on developing research skills via an ultrasound research project in collaboration with clinical partners.
Structure
You must complete the following units
Prior to admission to the applied ultrasound practice units (after completion of SON4000 and SON4010), you must provide evidence verifying that you are actively engaged in supervised clinical ultrasound practice for the equivalent of at least three days a week. The majority of units within this course are clinically based and you must find yourself a placement as a trainee sonographer. The University does not assist with this process. You need a placement as a trainee sonographer in order to gain the experience that is required to be competent in each of the study areas. We do not recommend that candidates apply for the course unless they are certain that they can secure a clinical placement. To successfully complete the Master of Medical Ultrasound you will be required to pass clinical competency assessments and have logged a minimum of 2200 hours of supervised clinical sonography experience (general) at a suitable clinic/hospital. Students who do not pass the clinical competency assessments or are unable to complete the required 2,200 hours of supervised clinical sonography experience, will be unable to continue in the master's program. However, they will be eligible to apply to exit with either a Graduate Certificate in Medical Ultrasound (M4003) or a Graduate Diploma of Health Studies (M5015), provided they have met the academic requirements for one of those awards. You must complete the following units.
- SON5021Sonographic abdominal imaging⤳
- SON5025Sonographic vascular and postoperative imaging⤳
- SON5022Sonographic imaging of the reproductive system⤳
- SON5020Sonographic professional skills and sonography of the breast and thyroid⤳
- SON5023Obstetric sonography⤳
- SON5024Musculoskeletal, neonatal and paediatric sonography⤳
You must complete the following units