Have you thought about finding a new profession as a solution to the current economy and the difficulty of life and success? The mission of National Polytechnic College (NPC), a Los Angeles area career college, has always been to provide the community with significant educational choices that can rapidly and successfully improve the quality of life of their students. This month they have added advanced training for a career in the medical profession.



Announcing the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program (ultrasound technician), NPC stresses that this program can be completed within a twenty-four month period, providing students with a proven solution to the quandary of life and success. NPC is well known for their thorough educational procedures which include detailed lectures, hands-on laboratory instruction, as well as a clinical externship experience giving the theoretical knowledge, skills, and responsibilities required to work in the vast medical field as a sonographer.

Completing this training and entering the job market in two years could prove to be perfect timing. The number of available openings in this field is expected to be very favorable. Sonography is on the rise as an alternative to radiologic procedure, as patients are seeking the safer diagnostic methods.

The principal workplace opportunities for a sonographer will be hospitals; however there are doctor's offices and diagnostic labs that will also need to hire professionals trained in this program. The numbers of health facilities needing these technicians are expected to grow rapidly in the next five years. There is a strong shift toward outpatient care which has been made possible by the technological advances that allow this testing to take place outside the hospital.

According to the US Labor Department statistics, employment of diagnostic medical sonographers is expected to increase in demand and grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2012.

Once completed with the program, the graduate will be well-trained and quite experienced for his new profession. The areas that are covered in the training include ultrasound scanning examinations and procedures, data collection for interpretation by a physician, patient history integration and clinical data support; all facilitating optimum diagnostic results. Patient care, communication skills and professional approach are also stressed in the program.

NPC's comfortable learning environment begins with personal assistance with financial aid, includes training in job-seeking skills, and ends with extensive placement services, assisting with job applications and referrals to the many companies that contact them for personnel. Students are very likely to join the large percentage of NPC graduates who find work within the first month of program completion.

David Maddahi started NPC and knows the importance of having training for the career of your choice. ?Becoming a diagnostic medical sonographer (ultrasound technician) can mean job opportunities in the high-paying medical field. We are very excited to offer this new program here at NPC. We chose this program because we know the future of this particular professional is great and we are here to raise the quality of life of our students.?

In the time it takes to complete the diagnostic medical sonography program (ultrasound technician training) students will find they have a proactive solution to the current economic hardships and may find themselves coming into the job marketplace at just the right time with exactly the right skills and experience needed to get a great new job.