NYS Certificate Requirements for Echocardiography

New York State sets high standards for echocardiograph technicians. Echocardiography is a specialized expertise within the field of cardiac measurement and ultrasound technology. An echocardiograph technician is also a skilled sonographer with the academic and clinical training to perform thorough examinations. Training can take less than a year to complete and professional echocardiograph technicians must be supervised by a licensed physician.

High School

• Echocardiograph technicians can make over $30 per hour.

  In New York, you must be a high school graduate to meet certification requirements. If you have not graduated from high school you must possess a high school equivalency diploma. According to Erie.gov, certification requires "one year of on the job training in M-mode." You must also be trained in "two-dimensional echocardiography, continuous wave Doppler and color Doppler studies," states Erie.gov. Once certified, an echocardiograph technician can make over $30 per hour.

College Degree

• Receiving an associate's degree in echocardiography takes at least two years.

  Hiring preference is also given to an echocardiograph technician with a college degree. Trocaire College is one New York college that offers an associate's degree program in both echocardiography and ultrasound technology. According to the Trocaire website, a student must have 36 credit hours and an overall 2.0 grade point average to receive a degree.

  Trocaire College

  360 Choate Avenue

  Buffalo, NY 14220

  716-826-1200

  trocaire.edu

Additional Certification

• Certfications require an understanding of clinical practice.

  Regardless of whether you only graduated high school or have a college degree, every echocardiograph technician must be certified as a registered diagnostic cardiac sonographer. If you do not have this certification you must obtain it prior to the end of most employment probationary periods. The cardiac sonographer certification is issued by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography. According to Education-Portal, certificate programs in echocardiography work well for students with limited time or resources who can't commit to a full-time degree program.

  American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography

  51 Monroe St., Plaza East One

  Rockville, Maryland 20850

  301-738-8401

  ardms.org