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hello my name is kim and im new to this site. Im hoping someone could answer a few Q's for me. i really want to pursue a career as an ultrasound sonographer but i just dont know where to start! i need to know what steps i should be taking toward becoming an ultrasound tech. From what i understand, before i can take the actual ultrasound course, i need to have an associates degree in an allied health field.is that correct? can someone tell me what the allied health fields are? and what and i was also wondering if i could get my associates degree online and then go to a college for the ultrasound,or do i have to go to a campus to get my associates degree? any info anyone could give me would be very much appreciated. thank you so much!

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Specializes in ER, ICU/CCU, Home Health.

Sounds to me like you need to go to your local community college and get some straight scoop. You cannot plan a career they way you appear to be going about it. How, for example, can you possibly want to be an ultrasound tech without knowing anything about it?

You can't make a sound judgment by going to a nursing web site and expecting to get career info on an imaging profession.

Good luck!

Kevin

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hello my name is kim and im new to this site. Im hoping someone could answer a few Q's for me. i really want to pursue a career as an ultrasound sonographer but i just dont know where to start! i need to know what steps i should be taking toward becoming an ultrasound tech. From what i understand, before i can take the actual ultrasound course, i need to have an associates degree in an allied health field.is that correct? can someone tell me what the allied health fields are? and what and i was also wondering if i could get my associates degree online and then go to a college for the ultrasound,or do i have to go to a campus to get my associates degree? any info anyone could give me would be very much appreciated. thank you so much!

I know a lot about nursing programs and little about ultrasound, but I will tell you what I do know. In a community college where I live, you do not need an associates degree to enter the program. You simply need to take some pre-req courses, if I remember correctly they were physics, A&P 1, A&P 2 and some other classes. Try contacting community colleges in your area, or private schools. I stress, make sure the programs are certified. You can find out which programs are certified in your state in this website:

http://www.sdms.org/career/selection.asp

An allied health field can be a medical assistant, as well as a diagnostic medical sonographer ( or ultrasound sonographer)

In this website they list all the Allied health careers:

http://www.explorehealthcareers.org/en/index.aspx

Hope this helps! and good luck

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I think the first thing you need to do is go to your local Jr college and they will help u better than I could. And just Google "how do I become ....." and that might help too.

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Specializes in L&D, PACU.

At our junior college you had to be an X-Ray tech before you could take ultrasound. To be an X-ray tech you just had to go through the junior college's x-ray tech program, then pass the national test. But as the others have said, the best way to find out is to go in to a local school and ask.

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