ARDMS SKILLS Reviews

Stupid app from a money grabbing company

I am already displeased about having to be tethered to apple corporation my entire life because I have a banking app that has to be periodically updated and which means I don’t get to choose whether I want to participate in this great new world of technology. A place where I’m forced to I purchase a phone every two years and the prices are getting ridiculous. Now you want to seal the deal and tether me with additional required quizzes through an application. Think about what the long term implication of implementing this and forcing people to have to upgrade to the latest iOS whether they want to or not.

And not to mention the 30 hours that are already required. Don’t be like apple and Google and everybody else trying to get ahead by doing too much. Look at Facebook now. They are software developers ruining a once enjoyable experience because of over management.
Watch that movie with George Clooney “Up in the Air”, her great idea saves money but isn’t the right way for what they do as a business. Ask yourself, can we make everyone download an app as a requirement?

Is it to replace the 30 CMEs needed to maintain credentials, or is it yet another requirement added on top of them? It’s easy enough to use, but you are required to do quizzes in every area in which you are registered. I’ve got 3- one of which I’ve never used but was required by old boss to get even though my lab doesn’t perform general ultrasounds. So you could say that those quizzes could teach me something, BUT it isn’t anything I’d use professionally- so time waster.

Just another useless organization waiting for your annual fee for a credential any trained monkey could get. Study and regurgitate memorized information to get a plastic card that’s means next to nothing. It amazes me how many people have a credential but still can not perform the fundamental duties of a sonographer. Don’t tell me you’re an RVT but can only perform carotids and lower extremity venous exams. Maybe time to study for my CCI credential and leave ARDMS behind.

So you got slammed for trying to make us recertification . Now it looks like these are going to be mandatory? I study every three years to get my 30 CME and stay updated. Leave us alone.

What would you say you do here?!? Because it is not support or advocate for better pay, safer work environments or support ultrasound technologists. Hope you are enjoying all our yearly dues for nothing. This is just a joke. These flash cards are sure to assist with my carpal tunnel syndrome and my best friends second shoulder injury. You guys really came in clutch. 🤨🙄

I’ve been doing the quizzes and just realized I haven’t done one in awhile. I went to login and it said my “token” has expired and then went to a login page. I tried to click registrants but nothing happens. If the quizzes are required but ARDMSSKILLS isn’t working what happens? This is more stress than I need right now.

I just took my first quiz and am disappointed that the organization that credentials sonographers has only ten questions to provide and got one wrong. Who is in charge of editing content? The mmode question where mitral regurgitation was the answer could not be more clearly mitral stenosis. I’m embarrassed for ARDMS and have less confidence in the organization.

Our 30 CME’s should be sufficient. I don’t know any other profession in the medical field that has to do this kind of thing. We went to school and put in our time. We work hard with not enough pay for tearing up our bodies and then get expected to test more. Give me a break!!!

If this is going to be a requirement in ADDITION to the CMEs we already have to take it is complete overkill. I will not take another registry now. It isn’t fair to those of us with multiple registries to have to do so many quizzes. I will not be sitting for any more specialty exams if all it will do is add more to my workload. Thanks for nothing again ARDMS.

We as diagnostic medical sonographers are already overworked, undervalued, and underpaid. We are already required to pay ARDMS a yearly fee and have 30 CME’s within a 3 year period. We already paid hundreds of dollars to take our credentialing exams! Having these quizzes be a requirement on top of everything else we have to do is an insult.

I love ARDMSSKILLS. I can keep refreshing my knowledge. I wish it can give more questions and stay free.

I don’t know how you can try to make this mandatory when every time I try to use ARDMSSKILLS there’s something else wrong. I can’t even log in to see quizzes pertinent to my credentials. The page won’t even recognize my clicks. I can only view quizzes as a guest. Do better ARDMS.

ARDMSSKILLS is not even working properly. It does not show the results. I did the quiz twice and still did not show the results the second time.

I downloaded ARDMSSKILLS and it won’t open. Only takes me back to the login screen. These quizzes if mandatory need to be available on the website. It seems like a scam.

Got an email to sign up and win free ARDMS fee . . . Can’t even log in because it just crashes. . . Not useful at all

Downloaded the ap but it won’t load. I’ve tried both as my ARDMS registrant and as a guest but it won’t open.

Unable to get the log in to work!

Well it’s frozen on a white screen, I’d say it needs more work

It downloaded but won’t open 🤷‍♀️

ARDMS does absolutely nothing positive for Sonographers while taking our money every year. Now besides our required CME’s, we will have to do this crap too. How about you guys focus less on your greed, and more on how to PROTECT us and get us the pay we deserve! The responses here from the company are a joke and lack any accountability. Do better. To the sonographers contemplating downloading ARDMSSKILLS, don’t bother unless you want more to add to your already full workload. Ridiculous.

I haven’t had any new quizzes since the first quarter of this year (Jan. - Mar. 2023) for any of the five specialties in which I’m registered. A brief web search seems to suggest that quite a few other users have a similar issue, without an obvious/consistent solution.

The quizzes themselves weren’t so bad, although I remember working through them as being a bit slow and clunky. It’s just frustrating to be ‘required’ to complete something I can’t even access.