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Discipline: Mammography Certificate - E0398
Course Name Course Number Objectives
Clinical Experience 3C RAD 3C
  • The student will adapt procedures to meet age-specific, disease specific, and cultural needs of patients.
  • The student will critique images for appropriate anatomy, accuracy of positioning, image quality, and patient identification.
  • The student will determine corrective measures to improve inadequate images.
  • The student will position the patient and image receptor to accurately demonstrate the affected body part.
  • The student will execute medical imaging procedures under the appropriate level of supervision.
Clinical Experience 4 RAD 4
  • The student will demonstrate technical competency.
  • Student/Graduate will apply accurate positioning skills
  • The student will use appropriate and effective written, oral and nonverbal communication with patients, the public, and members of the healthcare team
  • The student will use personnel and radiation protection measures each exam warrants
  • Student/Graduate will critique images to determine diagnostic quality.
  • Student/Graduate will determine corrective measures for non-diagnostic images.
  • Student/Graduate will provide patient-centered, clinically effective care for all patients regardless of age, gender, disability, special needs, ethnicity or culture.
Mammography Principles and Procedures RAD 40
  • The student will identify the internal anatomy and external anatomy of the breast
  • The student will develop knowledge of assessment categories within the Breast Imaging and Reporting Data System (BI-RADS)