The programs in the Allied Health Sciences at the Florham Campus are designed to provide the broad, intensive, academic, and clinical experiences that undergraduate students need to assume their chosen professions. The core curriculum is designed to meet the professional essentials for state licensing and/or National Registry Examination. The Allied Health programs may be subject to change to ensure that they are continuously in accordance with professional essentials. The programs in Allied Health articulate with the B.S. degree in biology as well as many other disciplines, permitting flexibility in preparation for an advanced professional degree. The curriculum provides a special environment in which students can integrate their academic and professional applied learning with the clinical practicum. It emphasizes the need for sound preparation in the natural and physical sciences, familiarity with the disciplines represented by courses in the liberal arts and use of the latest technological innovations in patient care. Completion of this program will result in a Bachelor of Science in Medical Imaging Sciences with a concentration in Diagnostic Medical Sonography or Vascular Technology, the practice of Cardiovascular Sonography, awarded jointly by Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Rutgers School of Health Professions (Rutgers SHP). Students will complete 96 credits during their first three years at FDU. They then must apply for acceptance to the professional component at Rutgers SHP, admission requires a separate application, usually in the junior year. A joint degree is awarded upon completion of the professional component.