Tracy: Sonography was just something I thought was really interesting and I shadowed at a hospital to see if it was something I wanted to pursue. And once I did I knew right away that it's, yeah, it's really great, I really like it.
Sandy: Very interesting to see the whole heart beating as a whole inside the body without any harmful effects.
Etleva: We all have a heart and you'll never know what's going to happen to us or one of the family members.
Tabby Riley: Probably the biggest thing that I impart to the students is that their patients always need to come first and that regardless of the kind of training they receive from me or from the clinical sites that hopefully they will do the best job that they can do for their patient forever.
Tracy: I feel like very body is very supportive even from, you know, the other specialties not just cardiac. I feel like everybody really wants to do well and they want to do what they can to make that happen.
Etleva: We have great teachers, the program is great. It's hard; of course, at school it wasn't going to be that easy. Good things need hard work, but they prepare very well.
Tabby Riley: It's important that they're prepared before they go and I think that's where Tri-C is better than some of the other schools out there because we make sure that the students are fully prepared to do a full exam before they even go to the hospitals.
Sandy: Our instructor has open lab hours. She has open office hours; she has her phone number out there. So there's a lot of ways to get a hold of your instructors when you needed the question and answer.
Tabby Riley: I'm very passionate about not just teaching, but the actual profession in itself. I still actually perform a Co-Cardiograms whenever I can. I want to stay in the field for as long as I can and I feel like it's important that I'm still working actively so I can bring that to the classroom and build a share cases.
Sandy: It's a challenge but it's well worth it in the end.
Tracy: I would definitely recommend it if something that, you know, you've been thinking about.
Etleva: I'm trying to study hard and be out there in the real world and help people.
