Overview

Medical Instrument Technician (Ultrasound) Joint Base San Antonio

Time to invest in some new footwear because if you’re San Antonio-bound, you’d better show up in boots! The Alamo City is one of the military’s most envied postings and is often referred to as Military City USA .

Low cost of living, affordable homes, and the lack of state tax on retirement income are a few financial perks to living and retiring in this Texas city.

A robust job market that seems partial to government and defense / security contracting ensures employment opportunities for spouses or transitioning service members.

Some things you should know before you get here : trucks are the norm (the bigger, the better), love for The Spurs (NBA) runs deep, the H-E-B obsession is real (it’s a grocery store), rodeos are life, and don’t call it San Antone that’s just wrong.

The community boasts a vibrant Hispanic population, and enhances everything from the food, to the music, to community events.

You don’t necessarily need to speak Spanish to get around, but you’d better know how to say barbacoa, tamales, and cascarones.

Name brand shopping (IKEA is the latest arrival of note), restaurants, and all variety of entertainment all add to San Antonio’s quality of life.

SeaWorld, the San Antonio Zoo, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, and downtown museums are all fun outings for kids and families. Tube or kayak down a river, play or fish in the lakes, or relax by San Antonio’s famous downtown River Walk.

Museums, art galleries, and historical landmarks remember The Alamo? round out San Antonio’s cultural offerings. Tex-mex cuisine arguably originated here, and some up and coming culinary trendsetters are making a name for themselves in the Pearl District downtown, alongside several notable breweries.

San Antonio has over 300 days of sunshine with some hot summers, mild winters and pleasant spring and fall seasons. San Antonio is in Bexar County (it’s pronounced BEAR ) in south central Texas, and is just south of the gorgeous Hill Country.

It’s only about two hours from Austin, the beach, or the desert.

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid-time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions.

Responsibilities

The purpose of this position is to produce diagnostic images by employing high-frequency ultrasound equipment.

Performs a wide variety of complex ultrasound examinations such as Abdominal, Renal, Pelvic, Obstetric, Carotid, Venous, Vascular, Testicular, Thyroid, and Biopsies to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of disease or injury, Utilizing diagnostic 2D and Doppler spectral analysis, color power angio, and real time ultrasound of all areas of the body on active duty soldiers, retirees, family members, trauma patients both in an inpatient and outpatient environment.

Performs technically critical examinations such as ectopic and torsion examinations. Reviews examination for completeness and takes additional imaging when necessary.

Performs portable ultrasound examinations. Performs all associated administrative duties. Schedules and receives patients, operates ultrasound equipment, scans patient to obtain images necessary for requested examination.

Independently performs scans which illustrate normal and abnormal anatomy through control of time gain constant, near and far gain, or change of transducer frequency to optimize the scans for diagnostic use;

recognizes when different scans, positions or angulations are needed to better illustrate or accurately define internal structure.

Decides which organ system or part of body needs to be scanned for the appropriate clinical problem, adopting special techniques for the clinical problem, and making adjustments during the study as indicated by the anatomy and pathology seen.

Advises radiologist and / or referring physician of results of the examination and provides preliminary information regarding diagnostic evaluation.

Notifies physicians of significant scans requiring immediate attention and modification while the patient is undergoing the examination.

When on call, serves as the technical subject matter expert for the Radiologist on duty. On more unusual and complex assignments, assists the radiologist and medical officers in performing invasive diagnostic techniques such as needle biopsies, aspirations with needle localization during biopsy procedures, sible for training military personnel, students, radiology and emergency room residents physician assistants, in use of the ultrasound equipment, to include hands-on training, theory, supervision of residents when scanning, procedures, standard scanning planes or standard views and recommendations on various techniques.

Training takes between one and three years and is very intensive as trainees go from the Ultrasound straight to place of employment and are expected to function at full capacity.

Technician may also be tasked to give formal classroom lectures to residents. Maintains up-to-date knowledge of developments in the field of ultrasonography to recommend new techniques, methods, examinations and guidelines for adoption.

Meet all Joint Commission requirements and participation in performance improvement. Participates / conduct research projects dealing with a variety of medical issues that require great discretion and judgement in the best way to perform tests in order to achieve accurate results.

Qualifications

US CitizenBLS certificationAt least 1-year of experienceCertified

Last updated : 2024-03-23