Professional Organizations

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Professional Organizations
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Accreditation of Schools

• Accreditation
• A voluntary peer process through which an agency
  grants recognition to an institution for a
  program of study that meets specified criteria
• Sets the conditions under which new members may
  qualify for entry into the profession

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Sponsoring organization

• Professional organization that appoints members
  to a joint review committee board

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Joint Review Committee (JRC)

• Group of persons appointed by sponsoring
  organizations to oversee the accreditation
  process
• Approve a document called the Standards which
  details exactly how an accredited program must
  operate

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Self Study

• Extensive document which covers in detail each of
  the Standards set forth by the JRC.

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Classifications of the JRC

• Provisional
• Probationary
• Up to 8 years accreditation

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Accrediting Agencies

• Joint Review Committee on Education in Diagnostic
  Medical Sonography (JRCDMS)
• Accredits Sonography programs

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Accrediting Agencies

• Joint Review Committee on Education in Nuclear
  Medicine Technology (JRCNMT)
• Accredits nuclear medicine programs

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Accrediting Agencies

• Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic
  Technology (JRCERT)
• Accredits radiography programs
• Sponsored by the American College of Radiology
  (ACR), The American Society of Radiologic
  Technologist (ARRT) and the Association of
  Educators in Radiologic Science (AERS)

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Certification of Individuals

• Certification
• Voluntary process through which an agency (ARRT)
  grants recognition to an individual upon
  demonstration, usually by examination of
  specialized professional skills.

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Certification of Individuals

• Registry
• A listing of individuals holding a particular
  certification

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Registry Boards

• American Registry of Diagnostic Medical
  Sonographers (ARDMS)
• Registers Sonographers

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Registry Boards

• American Registry of Radiologic Technologist
  (ARRT)
• Registers radiographers
• Purposes include encouraging the study and
  elevating the standards of radiologic technology,
  examining and certifying eligible candidates and
  publishing a listing of registrants

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• Those who have been designated Registered
  Technologist have the title
• RT (R)
• After reaching registry status, individuals must
  maintain 24 hours of continuing Education
  documentation during a 2 year period and pay
  annual fees to maintain their status

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Registry Boards

• Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board
  (NMTCB)
• Certifies nuclear medicine technologist

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State Licensing Agencies

• Many states require a license to practice.
• This usually means submission of certification
  and paying the appropriate fees

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Professional Societies

• American Healthcare Radiology Administrators
  (AHRA)

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Professional Societies

• American Society of Radiologic Technologist
  (ASRT)
• Represents individual practitioners, educators,
  managers and administrators, as well as students
  in radiology, radiation therapy and nuclear
  medicine as well as many specialties within each
  modality

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Radiologist and Physicist Organizations

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  (AAPM)
• American Board of Radiology (ABR)
• American College of Radiology (ACR)
• American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
  (AIUM)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS)

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Radiologist and Physicist Organizations

• American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and
  oncology (ASRO)
• International Society for Clinical Densitometry
  (ISCD)
• Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA)
• Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

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