The Pee Dee Echo
Society, under the leadership of McLeod Regional Medical Center chief echo
sonographer Sherry Gibson, provides continuing professional development through
case studies to registered diagnostic cardiac sonographers once a quarter. This training was initially provided in-house
to staff and has expanded to other facilities via videoconferencing
technology. Viewing sites include McLeod
Seacoast (Little River, SC), McLeod Medical Center-Dillon (Dillon, SC), New Hanover
Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, NC), and host site McLeod Regional Medical
Center (Florence, SC). The newest
facility to join the Pee Dee AHEC training is Boice Willis Clinic in Rocky
Mount, North Carolina.
This collaboration
was coordinated by Kay Lambert, Pee Dee AHEC Allied Health Education
Coordinator, with the assistance of Area L AHEC in Rocky Mount, NC, who
provided the videoconferencing equipment and viewing site for training their
area sonographers. The impetus for this collaboration originated with a
sonographer, Njeri Mendenhall, RDCS, who moved to North Carolina from Florence
and desired to be a part of the training again. Connections were established
and the Boice Willis sonographers attended their first training session in
March.
Ms. Mendenhall
stated, “I missed the relaxed atmosphere and ease of learning that the Pee Dee
Echo Society provided. Everyone learns
from each other. After I graduated from the Sentara School of Health
Professions in Chesapeake, Virginia, I shortly joined the staff at McLeod Regional
Medical Center, Florence, SC. At this
time, I attended continuing education programs as a part of my professional
healthcare career and continued for 8 years there. I’m so glad to be a part of this training again
with the use of videoconference technology and to receive professional
continuing education credits.”
The next training for
the Pee Dee Echo Society will be held on June 2 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Register to attend at www.peedeeahec.net.
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