This FAQ is for people who think about becoming an ultrasound technologist. If you think about becoming an ultrasound technologist, you should read it to have more information about the career, especially because these informations are all in one place only. It will help you to know how to become an ultrasound technologist, how much are tech paid, what an ultrasound technologist do, what kind of additional training an ultrasound technologist needs to do and more. You need to read it to have the information or when you have a doubt about the information.
Being an ultrasound technologist is about performing ultrasound examinations and acquire multiple images or videos, to give to the radiologist and other specialized doctors and specialized physicians to help give to right diagnosis and treatment plan to the patient.
Ultrasound technologists welcome the patients, ask relevant questions that could help them with the examination and with the diagnosis. They also do the examination, by producing images or videos of the patient body parts, to help all the specialized physicians to give the right diagnosis and treatment plan to the patient. The goal is to make images with a certain quality at the same time of making sure that their patients are doing good and feeling good during all the examinations. Then, they finish their examinations, by answering questions patients still have and by sending the pictures to the radiologists and specialized doctors.
On a typical day, an ultrasound technologist do multiple examinations. The ultrasound technologist explains the examination to the patients, ask them some relevant questions and answers to the questions the patients might have. Then, they proceed to do the examination and makes sure that the patient in comfortable during the examination. When their done, they answer to all the left questions of the patients and send the examination pictures to the radiologists and to all the specialized physicians that works with the patients.
Ultrasound technologists can work in hospitals, in clinics, in doctors' offices and in some labs, like in vascular labs.
To become an ultrasound technologist, you need to do a three to four-year technique in medical ultrasound, either at Ahuntsic College, at Sainte-Foy CEGEP, at Rimousky CEGEP or at Dawson College.
Based on the website "SalaryExpert", an ultrasound technologists, make an average $87,587 per year. This is equivalent of $42 per hour.
Ultrasound technologists need to do 30 hours per three years of additional training to keep themselves up to date on the new technologies and on the new pathologies.
Ultrasound technologists have a high risk of musculoskeletal injuries due to being close to and sometimes bent over patients or not always being ergonomic.
Ultrasound examinations need to be very precise and the ultrasound technologist must choose the right examination protocol in addition to scan the right organs related to the examination and modifies the parameters of the ultrasound machine in order to have an optimal examination. Plus, medical ultrasound contains a part of talking and listening to patients. So, AI and robots, who are limited in their movements and that do not talk with people and patients, are less likely going to be able to do the job of an ultrasound technologist. The possibility of robots replacing us as ultrasound technologist is therefore very low.
Ultrasound technologists retire between the age of 60 to 65 years old.
To me, it's a nice program to be in. We see and learn a lot of things to help save lives and to take care of people. Plus because it is a new program, it just continue to improve every year.
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