A directory of CASE accredited courses is published and updated annually. It contains standardised information on all UK ultrasound education programmes that hold current CASE accreditation.
Please email the CASE Coordinator - details below - if assistance is needed.
The Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE) was formed in 1993. It currently consists of five organisations:
British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS)
British Society of Echocardiography (BSE)
College of Radiographers (CoR)
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)
Society of Vascular Technology of Great Britain and Ireland (SVT)
CASE was formed through the common desire to ensure that the education and training of sonographers in the United Kingdom was delivered at the highest level. All members share common concerns that standards of service provision and education are developed in parallel with increasing demand and improving technology. All members will strive to create an environment in which education and training is maximised. This will make validation and accreditation to be as robust and straightforward as possible.
CASE's philosophy is to promote best ultrasound practise through the accreditation of those training programmes that develop safe and competent ultrasound practitioners. This should be delivered at postgraduate level. The majority of its activities relate to supporting those Institutions that offer, or wish to offer courses leading to the award of a Masters, Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate in Medical or clinical Ultrasound.
In addition to offering accreditation of new, and re-accreditation of established, ultrasound education programmes CASE undertakes annual monitoring of the courses it has accredited. The information obtained is fed back to the Institutions both on an individual basis and via the annual CASE report.
A CASE Open forum is normally held twice a year. All individuals with an interest in sonographic education are welcome to attend. It is an opportunity for constituent organisations and for CASE accredited Institutions to discuss aspects of sonographic education. These meetings provide a regular means of direct communication between the Institutions and CASE, enabling the views of the Institutions to be considered when deciding CASE policy.
Each member organisation is unique and has its own obligations to its membership and its own agenda. But CASE provides a forum for the interchange of ideas in which shared views may be synthesised, and thus inform education and training programmes.
CASE is the Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE)
Co-ordinator: Cathy Brown
Contact address: c/o The Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine
230 Tadcaster Road, York, YO24 1ES
Tel: 01904 610821 E-mail: case@ipem.ac.uk
Current CASE Chair: post vacant