TONY FORSHAW: QUT offers postgraduate options for studying ultrasound. These are in the specialist areas of cardiac ultrasound and also in general medical ultrasound, and they're aimed at practitioners who are already working in hospitals or medical centres trying to upskill their
qualifications as part of accreditation.

The Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound is aimed at cardiac technicians and scientists who are already starting ultrasound and looking to improve their skills in echo-cardiography and become cardiac sonographers. The medical ultrasound courses are also designed to improve the skills in those specialist areas, but they're aimed more at radiographers and general sonographers in clinical practice.

The courses are studied externally, where students come on campus for one week of intensive lectures and the rest of the time is studied online. This is to allow a balance between the busy working lives that the students have as well as their home life and still lets them study at their own pace to get through the course.

One of the great things about the program is that all of the lecturers and teaching staff are senior sonographers in their clinical practice and experts in the field, and we also have quite an array of specialists who come in during the on-campus blocks to provide their experience and share their knowledge with the students as well.

I really recommend this course for anybody who's thinking about starting cardiac ultrasound or any of the ultrasound specialties. And its external study mode just makes it so convenient for trying to be able to work and study and balance all of that.

If you're interested in studying ultrasound, there's lots of great information available on the QUT website, and I'm always happy to answer any questions by email. Hopefully I'll see you all on the on-campus block soon.