After the Course—From Class to Bedside

A few anchors to carry forward as your experience continues to unfold.

You’ve just completed an intense, hands-on experience—one designed not to end at the classroom door, but to keep working quietly in the background as you move forward. What follows is a recap of how we approached your training, why we did it that way, and where you can continue to draw support as your experience deepens.

Congratulations! Here's a list of the resources we discussed in Class.

Our 7-Step Approach to Your Training:

KMA's 7-step teaching formula for clinical ultrasound career success.
KMA's 7-step teaching formula for clinical ultrasound career success.

Vision

In a brief time, we’ve put the technical and clinical pictures together in the context of separate diagnosis and management pathways… all in the context of the global patient and provider care setting, to grow sharper with every case, forever. It's been to equip you further for your own Journey.

Stay with us in Linkedin and Born to Scan to keep the conversation close.

Female sonographer standing in window at bedside looking out the window in contemplation.
Female sonographer standing in window at bedside looking out the window in contemplation.

Vocabulary.

As you recall, we looked behind the face of every pertinent term to find where it came from, as its specific meaning is important, even though the different specialties have hijacked them for their own field. We matched them to their in-the-street-language so you, too, can pass them on clearly and more permanently concrete their precise meaning and value.

Download the free Merriam-Webster Dictionary app.

Anatomy.

Download these anatomy charts to your cell phone; also print & paste them everywhere in sight. You’re visual; make the most of it.

Protocol.

Remember? It started with the fingertip probe grasp (with the fifth finger down, to ensure you’ll gain a year-and-a-half jump start. And we set in motion, we simplified, and canonized the universal foundation and process on which you and your team will forever build.

How-to resources: Sonosite learning library

Two sonographers consulting a protocol list during an abdominal ultrasound exam.
Two sonographers consulting a protocol list during an abdominal ultrasound exam.

Practice.

You’ll never get enough; that’s why we’ll be standing beside you in perpetuity to help share our collective thinking together, for free. It's just not how many cases you've done; it's how you think with each one you do.

Ultrasonography greeting pregnant patient in late afternoon.
Ultrasonography greeting pregnant patient in late afternoon.

Pathology.

Like every important responsible professional, you need ready-references at your fingertips:

POCUS: ThePOCUSatlas.com

Abdominal, Vascular: Ultrasoundcases.info

Abdominal/OB/Gyn: Ultrasound-Images.com

Cardiac: Echocardiographer.org Echo Atlas

Worried sonographer looking at machine screen which shows suspicious pathology.
Worried sonographer looking at machine screen which shows suspicious pathology.

Communication.

If we did our job in Class properly, we said everything at least three different ways by at least two different means, all pitched to our best guess of what words and timing would be best for you. Now it’s time for all those apparently disparate facts, analogies and stories to unwind, ferment, and reveal over time their career-long intent for You. And now it's time for that line of communication to reach out into your very far and successful Future.. Because, now, everyone is going to want to hear what you have to say.

Ultrasoonographer typing and phoning in an urgent finding.
Ultrasoonographer typing and phoning in an urgent finding.

We built our approach around your career in service. And we're still here for you. Call on us for anything, any time. The answer is already Yes.