The following clinical competency flow chart has been developed to measure the student's ability to perform at satisfactory competency levels.
- Students must be nationally certified in Radiography, Nuclear Medicine Technology, or Radiation Therapy before program completion.
- Students must successfully complete MIS 300 Sectional Anatomy and CT 325 Computed Tomography Principles and Applications before beginning clinical rotations.
- Students will observe, assist, and perform computed tomography examinations under direct supervision in the clinical area, documenting observation and practice.
- Students request a category competency evaluation.
- Students pass the category competency evaluation and perform category examinations under indirect supervision. Students not successfully demonstrating competency will seek remedial instruction and go back to step 3 above while obtaining additional experience in the clinical area until they are prepared to retake the category competency evaluation.
Clinical Competency Breakdown by Course
CT 360 CT Clinical Practicum (8 credit hours, ~480 clock hours) *
- Successful completion of ARRT clinical experience requirements as outlined below.
*Note: CT 360 may be substituted for CT 340, 4 credits in one semester, and CT 350, 4 credits, in the following semester if attending part-time.
The Computed Tomography (CT) Program follows the ARRT Computed Tomography Clinical Experience Requirements for post-primary credentialing in computed tomography. To successfully complete the clinical experience requirements, students must perform and document a specific number of clinical procedures and adhere to the following guidelines:
- Documentation of the performance of the required CT repetitions must be completed before applying for certification and registration.
- No more than nine procedures can be documented for CT repetitions for each day.
- CT clinical repetitions must be documented no more than 24 months before applying for certification and registration.
Students must document the performance of complete diagnostic quality procedures according to the following requirements listed on the ARRT Computed Tomography Clinical Experience Requirements:
- Choose a minimum of 25 different procedures out of the 62 procedures listed.
- Complete and document a minimum of three and a maximum of five repetitions of each chosen
- procedure; less than three will not be counted toward the total.
- A minimum total of 125 repetitions is required.
- A minimum number of 30 repetitions must be done with iodinated IV contrast.
- A maximum of 9 repetitions may be logged from each day.
- No more than one procedure may be documented on one patient per day. For example, if an order
- requests chest, abdomen, and pelvis scans for one patient, only one of these may be documented
- for clinical experience documentation.
- Computed Tomography procedures performed for the purpose of a PET or SPECT attenuation
- correction or a radiation therapy planning cannot be used to fulfill ARRT's clinical experience
- requirements.
- Any non-cone beam CT scanner may be used to fulfill ARRT's clinical experience requirements (e.g., hybrid scanner, therapy planning scanner).
CT technologists at the clinical site are responsible for evaluating students for the category competency evaluations.
Any student not completing the requirements during the semester will be given an incomplete (Refer to the Incomplete Grade Policy).