http://www.radiology-technician-schools.com/radiology-schools/radiography-nuclear-medicine/ How To Become a Radiology Technician Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.radiology-technician-schools.com/radiology-schools/radiography-nuclear-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-388 blazinda Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:04:24 +0000 http://www.radiology-technician-schools.com/radiology-schools/radiography-nuclear-medicine/#comment-388 Regardless if you get a BS, AAS or a certificate in radiography, you can be cross trained in MRI and CT as long you are registered under the ARRT. You will not be able to get cross trained to nuclear medicine, sonography or radiation therapy but you can go to formal educational programs and most likely you will have a better luck getting in because you have experience in patient care and know the physics of radiology already. Well due to the fault of ASRT and the SNMT meddling with the market, nuclear medicine technologists can be cross trained into MRI and CT but not as easily as the x ray techs. You can go to school for it but nowadays, employers are looking for techs usually x ray techs who have experience in both modalities due to the bad market of all modalities. You can find a job if you have a good network out of MRI or CT school or you got it by plain luck. You don't need a BS to be cross trained but it can open doors. By the way even if you do have a BS degree, it doesn't directly give you the job in MRI or CT either. Most likely you have to earn it and prove yourself that you are worthy earning that promotion like I did and the rest of the techs nowadays. If you get it, good for you. Honestly, by 2015 it is requiring to have a BS to be the entry level for the nuclear medicine profession but if you do get registered in this modality before that time, you are okay especially if you have experience. It's just a ploy to make the market better really regardless what they say. Is it better to just go to nuclear medicine? I don't know, that's up to you. I am going to school right now for nuclear medicine but I had the job in CT and MRI just because I am an x ray technologist, so it's your decision. Regardless if you get a BS, AAS or a certificate in radiography, you can be cross trained in MRI and CT as long you are registered under the ARRT. You will not be able to get cross trained to nuclear medicine, sonography or radiation therapy but you can go to formal educational programs and most likely you will have a better luck getting in because you have experience in patient care and know the physics of radiology already. Well due to the fault of ASRT and the SNMT meddling with the market, nuclear medicine technologists can be cross trained into MRI and CT but not as easily as the x ray techs. You can go to school for it but nowadays, employers are looking for techs usually x ray techs who have experience in both modalities due to the bad market of all modalities. You can find a job if you have a good network out of MRI or CT school or you got it by plain luck. You don’t need a BS to be cross trained but it can open doors. By the way even if you do have a BS degree, it doesn’t directly give you the job in MRI or CT either. Most likely you have to earn it and prove yourself that you are worthy earning that promotion like I did and the rest of the techs nowadays. If you get it, good for you. Honestly, by 2015 it is requiring to have a BS to be the entry level for the nuclear medicine profession but if you do get registered in this modality before that time, you are okay especially if you have experience. It’s just a ploy to make the market better really regardless what they say. Is it better to just go to nuclear medicine? I don’t know, that’s up to you. I am going to school right now for nuclear medicine but I had the job in CT and MRI just because I am an x ray technologist, so it’s your decision.

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