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For immediate release:  September 19 , 2007 (Clyde, NC)

HRMC Serves as Radiology Teaching Site for Buncombe and Jackson County Colleges

For immediate release:  September 19, 2007 (Clyde, NC)

The radiology department at HRMC serves as the radiography clinical teaching site for Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and Southwestern Community College, as well as for South College in Asheville.

Upon course completion and examination, students enrolled in the programs become radiologic technologists. 

Radiologic technologists are the medical personnel who perform diagnostic imaging examinations and administer radiation therapy treatments. They are educated in anatomy, patient positioning, examination techniques, equipment protocols, radiation safety, radiation protection and basic patient care.

They work closely with radiologists, the physicians who interpret medical images to either diagnose or rule out disease or injury. For the images to be interpreted correctly by the radiologist, the imaging examination must be performed properly by a radiologic technologist.

“Utilizing HRMC allows us to expand the clinical opportunities available to our medical imaging students, which means we can provide more well-trained healthcare professionals for our region,” said Debra J.  Reese, M.P.H., R.T.(R), Department Chairperson, Medical Imaging, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. 

Registered radiologic technologists must complete at least two years of formal education in an accredited hospital-based program or a two- or four-year educational program at an academic institution and must pass a national certification examination. To remain registered, they must earn continuing education credits.

Michael Puttkammer, newly appointed Assistant Director of Radiology (middle) acclimates South College Radiologic Technology Students Dana Van Dyke (left) and Lucy Lyda (right) with the hospital locale of HRMC’s wide variety of imaging services.