Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences (PCHCS)—Department of Health Science 2024–2025 180 Official records or electronic equivalent used to document the progression of learning and achievements must include name, credentials, and signature of the supervising sonographer. Students without documented achievement of required clinical competencies and the minimum number of procedures and type of procedures established by the program will be required to extend their clinical externship, as appropriate, until those requirements are satisfied. If a clinical preceptor, mentor, supervisor, or lab director requests that a student be removed from a clinical site, the student will be automatically suspended from the clinical site pending a decision by the program director whether or not to refer the student to the CSP and/or pending a hearing by the CSP, which may result in course failure and/or dismissal from the program for academic performance and/ or unprofessional conduct (even without any prior failure on record). The student will not be placed at another clinical site pending the outcome of the CSP referral and final decision of the department chair. Students who are dismissed from the program on the basis of unprofessional conduct will not be considered for reenrollment in the program. All guidelines regarding academic honesty, cheating, attendance, and professionalism apply to the clinical externship courses. Medical Sonography Program Clinical Hours Students must complete 46 weeks (1,564 hours) of full-time clinical experience without exceptions. When students do not achieve all of their competencies in abdominal—extended, OB-GYN, or vascular sonography, the clinical coordinators reserve the right to split a semester between general sonography (abdominal—extended and OB-GYN) and vascular sonography to allow this. All clinical competencies and all required courses must be completed to fulfill graduation requirements. Grading Policies and Procedures Alpha Grade A AB+ B BC+ C CD+ D F Scale 4.0 3.7 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.3 2.0 1.7 1.3 1.0 0.0 Percent 94–100 90–93 87–89 83–86 80–82 77–79 74–76 70–73 67–69 60–66 0–59 Courses for the B.S.—MS program are graded on an alpha scale (described above). Students must pass all courses with a grade of C or better. Any grade lower than a C will result in failure of the course. Students receiving a failing grade in a core sonography course or an online course will be referred to
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