Diploma in Medical Ultrasound (DMU/DMUD)

Key features:

• It is a Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound Diagnostic.
• One-year regular full-time course delivered both online and off-line.
• It is also available as One year distance learning online program with 2 months at site hands-on training.
• It is a comprehensive course covering almost all ultrasound modalities with North American curriculum and scanning techniques and protocol for APCA-ARDMS registry examination.
• Diploma shall be awarded by Shristy Institute for Health Sciences & Technology, for those who registers and successfully completes all the requirement of the program approved by the Shristy Institute.

Course Content:

It is a comprehensive course covering all aspect of the ARDMS & CARDUP, AIUM & ISUOG Guidelines for scanning technique and protocol along with didactic course & curriculum. The subjects taught within the one-year DMU-DMUD program are:

• Sonographic principles & instrumentation (SPI),
• Abdominal ultrasound
• Obstetrics ultrasound
• Gynecology ultrasound
• Neurosonology (Neonatal & Infant Brain)
• Small parts and superficial structures ultrasound (Neck, Thyroid, Breasts & Scrotum)

Who can do this course?

• This program is intended for all medical doctors and allied health professionals who wish to perform general abdominal, small parts, thyroid, breasts and OBGYN ultrasonography independently for diagnostic purposes in advance standing or tertiary level.
• One to One Hands-on training with state-of-the-art training facility, modern ultrasound equipment, supplemented by videos, lectures & American and Canadian licensed instructor.
• The distant learning program is intended only for those who are unable to attend in a regular program due to their pre-occupation and/or for foreign students who cannot afford one year leave from their employers.  However, they must ready for 2-month full time at site hands-on training at the end.

Objective:

The objective of this one-year duration Pg-Diploma course is to produce advanced standing sonologist and sonographers through a very intensive and more detail course module comprising both didactic and hands on practical training that will be able to serve the community in a secondary or tertiary level hospitals or clinics.

Registration:

This course enrolls new students twice a year:

• Winter Session – January to December
• Summer Session – July to June

Pricing and Discounts

• For full payment in advance, we offer discounts on the total tuition fee.
• Payment can be made in installments.

International Students:

• We welcome students from foreign countries to enrich our campus life and foster life-long relationships and international cultural interactions.
• Foreign students must apply at least three months ahead for visa processing.
• The certificates submitted by foreign students as prerequisite must be authorized and/or recognized by their respective board, university and/or medical council.
  

Accommodation:

• We have limited access of low-cost accommodation facilities at this moment
  for foreign students nearby the campus.
• However, it should be requested earlier to avail a seat. Or,
• We assist to find suitable accommodation nearby.

Subject-wise modules:

Sonographic principles & instrumentation (SPI) – Course modules:

• Introduction and Basic terminology
• Wave parameters –sound wave & ultrasound wave parameters
• Interaction of ultrasound & tissues
• TGC & echo-ranging
• Ultrasound Transducer theories & types
• Pulse-echo imaging & instrumentation
• Display mode, image storage & recording
• Hemodynamics
• Doppler principles & Instrumentation
• Image artifacts in grey scale ultrasound &
• Image artifacts in Doppler ultrasound
• Bioeffects and patient’s safety
• Quality assurance & quality control
• New technologies & protocol

Abdominal ultrasound – Course modules:

• Introduction, Basic Nomenclature, Terminology & Image orientation
• Abdominal vasculature – arterial system
• Abdominal vasculature – Systemic & Portal venous system
• Normal liver, anatomy and physiology
• Liver pathology
• Gall bladder and Biliary tree
• Pancreas
• Spleen & Reticuloendothelial system
• Retroperitoneum
• Adrenal glands
• Normal Kidney & Lower urinary tract
• Kidney & Lower urinary tract pathology
• Transplant Kidney
• Gastrointestinal tract
• Peritoneal cavities, fluid collections, ascites

Small parts & Superficial Structures ultrasound – Course module:

• Neck, Thyroid & Parathyroid gland
• Breast
• Prostate & Seminal Vesicles
• Scrotum & Testes
• Abdominal walls and Non-Cardiac chest.
• Basic MSK – muscles, joints and ligaments.

Gynecology ultrasound – Course modules:

• Introduction, basic terminology and Image Orientation
• Anatomy of female pelvis
• Physiology of female pelvis
• Uterine & Vaginal pathology
• Ovarian and adnexal pathology
• PID & IUCD
• Infertility & ART
• Patient care, safety and quality assurance

Obstetrics Ultrasound – Course modules:

• Normal first trimester
• Early pregnancy failure
• Ectopic pregnancy
• GTD/GTN
• First Trimester anomaly screening at 11w-13W 6days.
• Normal 2nd & 3rd Trimester
• Extra Fetal assessment of Placenta, AF, Cervix, Uterus, Ovaries & Adnexae
• Fetal age, Growth assessment & IUGR
• Multiple gestations
• Fetal anomaly of CNS, face & neck
• Fetal heart – Normal heart & cardiac anomaly
• Abdominal wall defects
• Gastrointestinal tract anomaly
• Genito-Urinary anomaly
• Skeletal anomaly
• Chromosomal anomaly (aneuploidy)
• Non-chromosomal anomaly (Structural & developmental anomaly)
• Fetal hydrops, Diabetes, Hemolytic disease of newborn
• Fetal surveillance by Doppler & Biophysical profile
• Recording, Interpretation & Report writing

Neurosonology (Neonatal & Infant Brain) – Course module:

• Role of Neurosonography in perinatal, neonatal and infant brain
• Intracranial hemorrhage & Germinal Matrix Hemorrhage (GMH)
• Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy & Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL)
• Hydrocephalus
• Vascular abnormalities
• Congenital malformations
• Intracranial infection
• Suspected head trauma
• Abnormal increase in head circumference
• Craniosynostosis, seizures, microcephaly, macrocephaly
• Perinatal, Neonatal and Infant Spine abnormality