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Discipline: Mammography Certificate - E0398
Course Name Course Number
Clinical Experience 3C RAD 3C
  • Demonstrate safe patient handling, transfers, immobilization, and adherence to institutional policies for infection control and emergency response.
  • Perform patient assessments, including recording of clinical history and physical/mental status evaluation.
  • Provide safe and effective patient-centered care, including adaptation to individual patient needs and effective communication.
  • Adapt radiographic procedures in response to societal, cultural, and individual patient factors.
  • Apply principles of radiation protection for patients, self, and others, including shielding, exposure factors, and monitoring.
  • Perform patient positioning to accurately demonstrate required anatomy.
  • Acquire diagnostic-quality images using proper technical factors and equipment operation.
  • Operate radiographic equipment competently, including troubleshooting and technical adjustments.
  • Critique images for positioning, image quality, patient identification, and implement corrective measures for non-diagnostic images.
  • Demonstrate professional behavior and adherence to radiographer practice standards.
  • Demonstrate ethical practice and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all clinical interactions.
  • The student will critique images for appropriate anatomy, accuracy of positioning, image quality, and patient identification.
Clinical Experience 4 RAD 4
  • Student/Graduate will critique images to determine diagnostic quality.
  • Demonstrate professional behavior and adherence to radiographer practice standards.
  • Demonstrate ethical practice and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all clinical interactions.
  • Perform patient assessments, including recording of clinical history and physical/mental status evaluation.
  • Provide safe and effective patient-centered care, including adaptation to individual patient needs and effective communication.
  • Adapt radiographic procedures in response to societal, cultural, and individual patient factors.
  • Apply principles of radiation protection for patients, self, and others, including shielding, exposure factors, and monitoring.
  • Perform patient positioning to accurately demonstrate required anatomy.
  • Acquire diagnostic-quality images using proper technical factors and equipment operation.
  • Operate radiographic equipment competently, including troubleshooting and technical adjustments.
  • Critique images for positioning, image quality, patient identification, and implement corrective measures for non-diagnostic images.
  • Demonstrate safe patient handling, transfers, immobilization, and adherence to institutional policies for infection control and emergency response.
Mammography Principles and Procedures RAD 40
  • Students will comprehend the BI-RADS classification system
  • Students will identify the internal anatomy and external anatomy of the breast
  • Students will identify the signs and symptoms of breast cancer
  • Students will explain the impact of key technical factors (kVp, mAs, compression thickness, target, filter, focal spot, grids, and magnification) on image quality.
  • Students will conduct a comprehensive patient assessment
  • Students will determine corrective measures for nondiagnostic mammographic images.
  • Students will critique mammographic images to determine diagnostic quality.
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