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Associate in Applied Science Degree
Students are prepared for positions as cardiodiagnostic technicians in hospitals, cardiovascular clinics, or physicians' offices. Cardiodiagnostics involves skill acquisition in performing resting electrocardiograms, assisting physicians in running exercise stress tests, scanning heart rhythm strips and carrying out sophisticated cardiac ultrasound examinations (echocardiography).
A 300-hour internship at a local hospital is required once all core courses (HPI prefix) have been completed with a grade of "C" or better.
** Admission requirements include:
- Fulfillment of the general admission requirements of Harper College.
- Submission of an official copy of ACT results. (This requirement will be waived for students who have completed 12 or more semester hours of college work.)
- High school graduation or equivalent (GED).
- High school grade point average of 2.0 or better (on a 4.0 scale), or if 12 semester hours of college credit have been completed, a college grade point average of 2.0 or better (on a 4.0 scale). Students who have previously enrolled at Harper College must be in good academic standing.
- Completion of at least two semesters of high school biology with grades of "C" or better or one semester of college biology with a grade of "C" or better. Once college biology has been completed, only college biology will be used to determine if the biology requirement has been fulfilled.
- Attendance at a Cardiac Technology Program information meeting.
- Satisfactory interview with the Cardiac Technology program director.
- Completion of the Harper College writing/reading Assessment or a college-level English composition course with a grade of "C" or better.
- Satisfactory Harper College Cardiac Technology admission score.
FIRST YEAR
| Summer semester: |
| HPI 100 |
Introduction to the Cardiac
Technology Program |
1 |
| First Semester: |
| BIO 160 |
Human Anatomy |
4 |
| English elective
(1) |
3 |
| HPI 101 |
Fundamentals of Exercise
Testing |
3 |
| HSC 112 |
Medical Terminology |
3 |
| Mathematics
elective (2) |
3 |
| total: |
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16 |
| Second Semester: |
| English elective
(1) |
3 |
| HPI 105 |
Electrocardiography |
4 |
| HPI 113 |
Ultrasound Physics (2) |
2 |
| HPI 116 |
Cardiac Anatomy and Physiology |
4 |
| total: |
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13 |
SECOND YEAR
| First Semester: |
| HPI 103 |
Prevention and Treatment
of Cardiac Emergencies |
3 |
| HPI 106 |
Cardiovascular Physiology
and Pathology |
3 |
| HPI 109 |
Diagnostics I |
3 |
| HPI 117 |
Laboratory Techniques I |
2 |
| total: |
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11 |
| Second Semester: |
| CHM 100 |
Chemistry for the Health
Sciences |
4 |
| HPI 110 |
Diagnostics II |
3 |
| HPI 115 |
Clinical Laboratory Skills |
3 |
| HPI 118 |
Laboratory Techniques II |
2 |
| Humanities
or Social Science elective |
3 |
| total: |
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15 |
| Summer Semester: |
| HPI 107 |
Cardiac Technology Internship
(3) |
4 |
* Cardiac Technology is a limited enrollment program. See
limited enrollment programs section of this Catalog for details.
** Subject to change. Contact the Admissions Office for additional information.
- Students should seek the advice of a Student Development faculty
member to determine the appropriate English course.
- A competency test, available in the Assessment Center, may be
utilized to meet the mathematics elective requirement. Students
in this program who utilize the competency test to meet the mathematics
requirement must complete a three (3) credit hour elective.
- HPI 107 may also be taken in fall or spring.
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