The Society's newsletter, SDMS News Wave, will no longer be included in the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography and instead, will be published in an electronic-only (PDF) format on the SDMS website. Benefits of the new format include:

• More up-to-date information for our members (without the time constraints of printing and mailing, the content is more up-to-date…plus it is now published monthly instead of every other month)
• Easy to read on-screen (and it save trees!) or print only the pages you need
• Easy to navigate – click the ‘page curls’ at the bottom of page to ‘flip’ to the next or previous page
• Full-color – we can now include color photos and sonographic images
• Easy to search (search the current issue or use the website’s search feature to search across all issues)

1. 2008 SDMS Election Results
2. Letter From the President
3. CARE Bill Update
4. SDMS and ASRT Executive Staff Meet
5. SDMS Welcomes Two New Staff Members
6. Escape into a Fall Foliage Adventure in Connecticut
7. SDMS Helps Rwanda Initiative
8. How Do YOU Celebrate MUAM?
9. Is it a Match?
10. Call For JDMS Section Editors
11. SDMS Answers Your Calls
12. SDMS Member Benefit Spotlight: PrimeBenefit Mortgage Services
13. New Member Scan
14. SDMS Welcomes New Members

NOTE: These headlines link directly to SDMS News Wave in Adobe PDF format, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 or later. You can download a free copy at the Adobe website.

The premiere issue of the SDMS Sonography Mentor, our newsletter designed to keep educators up-to-date with the latest news and trends in sonography education and continuing medical education (CME), is now available. This issue of the SDMS Sonography Mentor highlights the launch of the new SDMS CME Policies and Procedures and provides important insights for educators about resources available to educators from the SDMS.

Go to http://www.sdms.org/members/news/mentor/mentor-jul-aug-sep-2008.pdf to read the first issue.

The following July/August JDMS CME articles and post-tests are posted in the members only area of the SDMS website. They can be accessed at: http://www.sdms.org/members/JDMS/default.asp#available

• Correlation Between 3D Transvaginal First-Trimester Neuroimaging and Embryonic Development
  1.0 CME credit in the OB/GYN (OB) content area

• Cystic Hygroma
  0.5 CME credit in the OB/GYN (OB) content area

SDMS Sonography Puzzles

SDMS Sonography Puzzles are a series of online crossword and word search puzzles that sonography educators can incorporate into their educational programs or can be used by students and sonographers just for fun. The puzzles are interactive and a fun way to learn sonography-related terminology.

This month's puzzle, titled Ergonomics was submitted by Anita Freeman, BS, RDMS, RVT from Northern Virginia Community College

The News & Notes column includes links to web-based news articles of interest to sonographers. The articles do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of the SDMS. To submit articles, send the URL to webmaster@sdms.org.

• Ultrasound serves as eyes of robotic surgery
  http://dimag.com/showNews.jhtml?articleID=209600650&cid=DIMAG-news-weekly-072908



• Doctor details ultrasound concerns
  http://newsok.com/doctor-details-ultrasound-concerns/article/3276017



• World's First Robotised Tele-Ultrasound Exam via Satellite
  http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/07/worlds_first_robotised_teleultrasound_
  exam_via_satellite.html