Becoming a Radiographer (4 cr)
Code: 7R00GM35-3002
General information
Enrolment period
10.02.2025 - 28.02.2025
Timing
01.10.2024 - 30.11.2027
Credits
4 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Radiography and Radiotherapy
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Radiography and Radiotherapy
Teachers
- Röntgenhoitaja Virtuaalihenkilö
- RADIO-luennoitsija Virtuaalihenkilö
- Pirita Markkula
- Ensihoitaja, ensiapu Virtuaalihenkilö
Person in charge
Kirsi Mansikkamäki
Groups
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24RH2
Objectives (course unit)
In this course, you will get to know the different areas of expertise in the career of a radiographer. You will learn to understand, among other things, the importance of medical expertise, management of radiation work and ethical consideration in the career path.
After completion of the course, student:
• can make an individual study and development plan and regularly updates it with the support of his / her teacher tutor
• can reflect his/her own learning in the annual guidance and development discussions
• can describe the importance of study and career planning for one's own professional growth
• develops his-/herself in the pharmaceutical expertise of the radiographer
• knows the basic ethical values in social welfare and health care
• knows the professional ethical guidelines and principles of the radiographer's profession
• knows the principles of management in imaging and radiotherapy units
• knows the methods of clinical audition
• discern the findings discovered with examinations
Content (course unit)
• reflection of the student’s own learning in guidance and development discussions
• professionalism, professional growth and professional identity
• pharmaceutical expertise
• ethical decision-making on different dimensions
• guidelines of professional ethics
• management and leadership
• clinical audition
• radiology subject to availability
Further information (course unit)
The course is completed throughout the 3,5 year education.
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
Pass:
• Participation in annual Individual Study Plan (ISP) discussions
• Passing annual pharmaceutical exams (100 %)
• Participates in the teaching and makes the given tasks acceptably
Fail:
• Does not participate in annual Individual Study Plan (ISP) discussions
• Does not pass annual pharmaceutical exams (100 %)
• Does not participate in teaching and does not make the given tasks acceptably
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail