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Medical Sonographers

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

These individuals produce and record images of various body parts. They help doctors monitor pregnancies and diagnose health problems. This group includes supervisors and trainers.

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature
  • Equipment, machinery, tools
  • Hazardous chemical
  • Biological agents

Main tasks

  • Produce images of body parts that require examination.
  • Assess the quality and consistency of diagnostic images during the examination and adjust devices as needed.
  • Save and process scanned images.
  • Observe and care for patients during examinations to ensure their safety and comfort.
  • Draft reports to help doctors monitor pregnancies and diagnose health problems.
  • Perform quality control on equipment and make minor repairs and adjustments as required.
  • Supervise and train students and other technologists.

Advancement and mobility

  • These individuals may specialize in various types of ultrasounds (cardiac, cerebral, gynecological, etc.).

Hourly wage

Not available.

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

250

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
87.5% Female
12.5% Male

Not available.
  • 87.5% Female
  • 12.5% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage

All of Québec

Not available.

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  2. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  3. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  4. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  5. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  6. Others
    0% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  2. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  3. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  4. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  5. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    100% of jobs
  6. Others
    0% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

College

DCS in technologie de l'échographie médicale This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 142G0

Also required

  • Membership in the Ordre des technologues en imagerie médicale, en radio-oncologie et en électrophysiologie médicale du Québec (OTIMROEPMQ [Quebec Order of Medical Imaging, Radiation Oncology, and Medical Electrophysiology Technologists]).

Sometimes required

  • Knowledge of the existing computerized system often required.
  • Membership in the Canadian Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (CSDMS) may be an asset.

Main skills and characteristics

Skills

  • Data collection
  • Active listening
  • Reading comprehension
  • Oral expression
  • Social perception
  • Information processing
  • Result evaluation
  • Critical thought
  • Active learning
  • Time management
  • Coordination
  • Written expression
  • Science
  • Operations and control
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Service oriented
  • Solving complex problems
  • Monitoring operations
  • Teaching
  • Persuasion
  • Learning strategies
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Abilities

  • Oral comprehension
  • Written comprehension
  • Verbal skills
  • Awareness of issues
  • Near vision
  • Written expression
  • Speech clarity
  • Control accuracy
  • Inductive reasoning
  • Speech recognition
  • Hand-arm stability
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Processing flexibility
  • Classification
  • Information organization
  • Selective attention
  • Limb coordination
  • Digital dexterity
  • Manual dexterity
  • Idea generation
  • Originality
  • Perception speed
  • Information processing speed
  • Visualization
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Knowledge and attributes

  • Autonomy
  • Sense of responsibility
  • Capacity to adapt
  • Knowledge of customer and personalized services
  • Capacity to work in a team
  • Rigour
  • Sense of initiative
  • Tolerance to stress
  • Commitment to quality
  • Knowledge of medicine or dentistry

Interests

  • Conduct tests and trials, control processes
  • Assist or care for people

Personality profiles (RIASEC)

Investigative
People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Realistic
People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Social
People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Additional information

Note about CNP

Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.

Official name of the NOC 3216 (32122)

Medical sonographers

Job titles

  • Ultrasound technician
  • Echocardiography technologist
  • Ultrasonography technologist
  • Diagnostic medical sonographer
  • Student sonographer - medical
  • Diagnostic medical sonography instructor
  • Medical sonographers supervisor
  • Ultrasound supervisor
  • Diagnostic ultrasound supervisor
  • Echocardiography technician
  • Diagnostic ultrasonography technician
  • Cardiac ultrasound technician
  • Diagnostic ultrasound technician
  • Registered diagnostic cardiac sonographer
  • Registered ultrasound technologist
  • Registered diagnostic medical sonographer (rdms)
  • Chief diagnostic medical sonographer
  • Diagnostic cardiac sonographer
  • Pediatric echocardiographer
  • Adult echocardiographer
  • Echocardiography technologist sonographer
  • Medical sonographer
  • Vascular sonographer
  • Sonographer - medical
  • Diagnostic ultrasound technologist - medical
  • Opérateurs/opératrices d'équipements de radiographie et d'ultrason
More Less job titles

Skill type

Health

Related occupations

  • Medical radiation technologists

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Last update: December 22, 2022

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