RADA 411 Clinical Internship I • 10 Cr.
Department
Description:
Radiologist assistant clinical internship under the supervision of a board certified radiologist in a diagnostic imaging department facilitating the development and documentation of required clinical competencies. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the program.
Outcomes:
After completing this class, students should be able to:
- Perform and document successful completion of a minimum of 20% of the mandatory and elective procedures listed below:
- Gastrointestinal
- Upper GI
- Small bowel study
- Barium enema
- Genitourinary
- Cystogram, including a minimum of 10 bladder catheterizations
- Hysterosalpingogram (imaging only)
- Retrograde urethrogram
- Invasive Nonvascular
- Arthrogram/joint injection and aspiration (standard, CT, or MR)
- Lumbar puncture under fluoroscopic guidance
- Nasoenteric and orenteric tube placement or adjustment under fluoroscopic guidance
- Paracentesis/thoracentesis with image guidance
- Fistulogram/sonogram
- Loopogram
- Tube injections (cholangiogram, etc.)
- Ductogram (galactogram)
- Myelogram (standard, CT, or MR)
- Breast needle localization
- Invasive Vascular
- PICC placement
- Port injection
- Lower extremity venogram (including venipuncture)
- Non-tunneled venous catheter central line placement
- Venous catheter placement for dialysis
- Post-Processing
- Routine CT (e.g., 3-D reconstruction, modifications to FOV, slice spacing, or algorithm)
- Specialized CT (e.g., cardiac scoring, shunt graft measurements)
- MR data analysis (e.g., 3-D reconstructions, MIP, 3-D surface rendering, volume rendering)
