Institute of Ultrasound — Local services in Daphne

This is the most difficult modality to learn. And yet the owners just recruit family members and students who have not yet graduated from the local program to be your instructors. So they do not know any better and can not help you. Experienced techs decades in the field get frustrated/confused by how pointless and difficult IUDs assignments are, and you’ll have someone with little to no experience whose never set foot in a a clinical site questioning you and making fun of you from behind their computer hundreds of miles away.

Syllabi are always wrong, due dates are moved around, powerpoints don’t play, medical terms are misspelled. They don’t respond to questions about material, they don’t even respond to my fixing their syllabi for them. I did however receiving a scathing email about cheaters and have to take a pop quiz which I failed and then of course the “class” and then I pay them more money.

They teach you to scan by timing you to take images as fast as you can after only a couple weeks. They think pointing and saying, “You see that? See that? You don’t see that?” is teaching ultrasound, instead of doing things like the experienced techs in the field for decades at my clinical sites wanted to do - teach the physics and the instrumentation before you even touch a probe.

When I missed cancer of the liver 7/8th of the way through the program is when I realized I had just learned enough tricks to appear as if I can scan but that I never received a foundation to build upon and therefore cannot work. The clinical director just laughed at me when I was upset that I never learned a foundation and they never allowed me to catch up, just giving me excuse as to why I deserve Fs, as if I care about their grading system more than I care about not hurting people. I was made fun of and called names, staff “forgot” stories and I’d be called up for inappropriate reasons like to discredit another students survey... but I was never helped or taught very much. Even though I graduated I’ll be attending another school in the fall starting at square one. In my opinion, this place is negligent and dangerous. This place was a colossal waste of good people’s talent, techs and patients time, my time and money, and my mental health.

My story is longer than I can fit in a review. But feel free to email me at daisychain1117 (gmail) if you need...

Do not give this school money. For the year long program we paid close to $14,000 in tuition, plus another $6,000 to $8,000 to be in Spanish Fort for almost two months.

When my wife was in her final quarter, and at her clinical site, they pulled her site because they said she wasn’t progressing in her scanning technique. However she was meeting every single requirement that they set for the course. She was passing all of her coursework, and was passing the scan tests as well. After removing her from one clinical site, they then sabotaged every attempt she made to secure a new clinical site. They also lied to us and said the site had requested she be removed, which was not true. They had asked her director if my wife would be ready to enter the workforce by a certain time, and the director was honest, and said she didn’t think so, but she would still keep working with my her. Because the director said this, the solution of the staff of this school, was to then pull this clinical site, thus assuring my wife wouldn’t be ready. I understand that she would need to be proficient, but I fail to understand how pulling her would help. Pulling her essentially ended everything right then. And since it was their decision to pull her, it seems completely unfair that the school would not then offer some type of a refund.

The end result is, we paid all of this money, and have absolutely nothing to show for it. Again, I requested a refund, but was told no. We couldn’t really afford this tuition, but we paid it to try and make our financial situation better. Every payment was paid on the due date without fail, and because we have nothing to show for that, our situation is much worse.

For the the amount we paid them, I feel like they should’ve been bending over backwards to help us. Instead, they were working hard against us, and I believe there was some ageism at play. Before my wife even started classes, she was accidentally copied on an email between members of their staff where they were being catty, and talking bad about her, because she was trying to begin this new career in her forties. They obviously had their mind made up before she even started.

These are not good people, y’all. Be aware of this before you risk a lot of money on...

I graduated in 2021 from this program as a distance student (I lived in Charleston, sc at the time.) I heard about the program from a friend who graduated years before. There were no ultrasound schools near me and I had a young son. It is an accredited accelerated program which means it is going to be a lot of information in a short period of time and takes a lot of dedication. They tell you all of this upfront and that you, as a distance student, are required to find your own clinical site. Finding a clinical site was very hard for me and took me a while but, I did it. They are hard on you, which they should be because when you get out into a work setting, you quickly realize it’s a huge responsibility and no one is going to take it easy on you. You are going to endure criticism and hard work but it is so worth it. In the end, it is completely up to you whether you prosper in this program. I truly feel like any of the people in this program would help me if they could. At the time, it seems crazy hard and a lot to take in but this school gave me the platform to make myself successful. I have been doing this as a career for two years now and I absolutely love it. I still receive emails constantly from them about job opportunities two years later and if I message any of the staff members, to this day, they...