Breaking Ground on Your Pathway

Plan Your Courses

Meet with our counselors to customize this plan just for you. You can also search the quarterly schedule for class days and times.

Prepare for College-level Math

Math placement is required for this program. If your math placement is below MATH& 146, you’ll need to take the following sequence of courses, starting from the level you placed into:
AE 48 → MATH 87 → MATH 88 → MATH& 146

Placement

English placement is not required for this program.

Vascular Technology is an Allied Health profession in which practitioners perform diagnostic and monitoring procedures using sound waves. The vascular sonographer performs examinations at the request or direction of a physician. Through subjective sampling and/or recording, the vascular sonographer proceeds with the examination to create an easily definable foundation of data from which a correct anatomic and physiologic diagnosis may be established for each patient.

The various types of ultrasound imaging equipment require a highly skilled sonographer to obtain the imaging information or other data required. The vascular sonographer must obtain appropriate history, physical findings, and pertinent laboratory data to adapt the imaging techniques to obtain comprehensive and diagnostic information.

The Vascular Technology program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Joint Review Committee for Cardiovascular Technology (www.jrccvt.org), JRC-CVT, 6 Pine Knoll Drive, Beverly, MA 01915-1425; (978) 456-5594.

Students within the Vascular Technology program are required to complete a six month, full-time clinical internship.  As clinical space is limited in Spokane and the surrounding area, the student may be required to complete their internship in an out-of-town and/or out-of-area medical center.

Admission Requirements:

• Vascular Technology courses are limited to students of the Vascular Technology program
• Active email account recommended   
• Appropriate math score
• Self–place into English
• A 2.5 grade in each prerequisite course is required.   
• Completion of all math and science prerequisites within the last five years to ensure current competency in content.
• Admission to the Vascular Technology program is competitive and based on panel interview, pre–requisite course GPA, additional math, science, and healthcare–related coursework, quality of reference letters, and completion of 40 hours volunteerism in healthcare and ultrasound.
• A 2.0 (79%) grade must be maintained quarterly in every course before proceeding to the next quarter.
• A national background check is conducted 1st and 4th quarters of the program 
• Immunizations, current healthcare provider CPR, and 7–hour bloodborne pathogen training are required prior to the clinical internship in the 4th quarter 
• Selective clinical sites require a ten–panel drug screen within 30 days of clinical internship        
• Return to the program is based on "space available" and requires remedial work to demonstrate knowledge base appropriate with program re–entry point.    
• After re–entry, students may only repeat a class one time. A repeat of courses must be completed within two years.  

• Computer skills are recommended      
• Some students find completion of CHEM 120 Organic and Biochemistry for Health Sciences, and CHEM 121 helpful to learning in the program 
• Additional healthcare related courses such as HED 129, or nursing assistant coursework

Total Program Credits: 114