Graduate Diploma
A sonographer is a highly skilled medical imaging professional who operates an ultrasound machine to perform diagnostic medical sonographic examinations.
The demand for ultrasound as a first line investigation has increased across all care settings, creating a shortage of sonographers in Australia.
In this course, you'll acquire knowledge and skills in applied anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, application and operation of ultrasound imaging systems, ultrasound image recognition and comprehension, patient assessment, and more.
On successful completion of this course you will fulfill the requirements for registration with the Australian Sonographer Accreditation Registry.
This course has been accredited by ECU as an AQF Level 8 Graduate Diploma Award.
Admission requirements you'll need to meet for this course.
Academic admission requirements (Band 6) may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:
Requirements from 01-JAN-2027:
All applicants are required to complete a Bachelor of Preclinical Foundations of Imaging Science including 640 hours of clinical placement in the sonography setting with a WAM of 70.
, with equivalents considered. Alternatively applicants can apply for the course on the basis of 5 years prior experience.
Applicants must have;
Year 12 English ATAR/English Literature ATAR grade C or better or equivalent; OR
Special Tertiary Admissions Test; OR
IELTS Academic Overall band minimum score of 7.0 (no individual band less than 7.0); OR
Successfully completed 1.0 EFTSL of study at bachelor level or higher in the UK, Ireland, USA, NZ or Canada, with equivalents considered.
International students and internationally schooled applicants (other than those students schooled in a recognised country) are required to provide an English language test approved by ECU with a score equivalent to the following minimum requirements:
Note:
English tests must be completed within 2 years of the proposed course commencement date and additional requirements may apply in relation to acceptable number of test sittings.
Recognised countries for English language purposes are Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom or the United States of America. The medium of instruction must be English.
Minimum English standard requirements for this course may also be satisfied with one of the following:
For the past 2 decades, Medical Sonography has been in the Occupations in Demand list of Australian Federal Government skilled migration program (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2019C00855) Sonography remains the most cited job vacancy in most national and international job seeking websites.
Possible future job titlesMedical Sonographer, Sonographer