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with meeting the "Core Performance Standards" must communicate their
concerns to the Student Services department as well as the program
director. Determination is made on an individual basis as to whether or not
the necessary accommodations or modifications can be made reasonably.
Core Performance Standards for Admission
and Progression
Critical thinking: Critical thinking ability to exercise clinical
judgment in a timely manner.
Interpersonal: Interpersonal abilities sufficient to interact
therapeutically with patients/clients, families and groups from a variety of
social, emotional, cultural, and intellectual backgrounds.
Communication: Communication skills sufficient for interaction
with patients/clients, families, staff, faculty and other students in verbal,
nonverbal, and written form.
Mobility: Physical abilities sufficient to move from room to room,
safely perform treatments/procedures and assist patients/clients; lift and
transfer patients/clients; manipulate equipment; walk and/or stand for
extended periods of time.
Motor skills: Gross and fine motor skills sufficient to provide safe
and effective patient/client care.
Hearing: Auditory ability sufficient to monitor and safely assess patient/
client needs.
Visual: Visual ability with or without corrective lenses sufficient for
observation and assessment necessary in safe patient/client care.
Tactile: Tactile ability sufficient for physical assessment.
Program admission requirements
New students are selected once each year, mid-spring semester.
February 15 is the deadline to apply. Students failing to complete all
requirements by this time will have to wait for program selection the
following year. Professional education starts at the beginning of the
summer semester. A maximum of 21 students are admitted each year.
Academic requirements
Students must:
1. Contact program faculty member for program application;
2. Be admitted as a classified student to Casper College before the
deadline;
3. Be 18 years of age or older;
4. Have completed the following college courses with a minimum GPA
of 2.3:
ENGL 1010 English Composition I . . . . . . . . . . . .3
HLTK 0950 American Heart Association BLS
for the Healthcare Provider . . . . . . . ..33
HLTK 1200 Medical Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
MATH 1400 Pre-Calculus Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
ZOO 2040 Human Anatomy and
ZOO 2041 Human Anatomy Lab, . . . . . . . . . . . . .and
ZOO 2110 Human Physiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
5. It is recommended that the cultural environment elective is completed
prior to admission to the program.
6. Participate in an observation period (fall semester) and a personal
interview if selected based on criteria and grades (spring semester);
7. Submit two letters of recommendation;
8. If accepted into the program present documentation of MMR,
chicken pox, and hepatitis B vaccination, PPD test, and evidence of health
insurance and current driver's license as required by the clinical affiliates.
Present evidence of a recent health examination.
Recommended coursework
High school physics or chemistry or equivalent (PHYS 1050 or 1110).
Transfer students
Students desiring to transfer into Casper College's medical radiography
program from other JRCERT accredited programs may be accepted if
there is adequate space available. All transfer students are expected to
meet all program requirements of Casper College's Radiography Program
before they graduate. Interested students should contact the program
director.
Registered Radiologic Technologists (R.T.), ARRT
Technologists currently holding certificates in radiography from the
American Registry of Radiologic Technologists and who do not possess an
associate degree in radiologic technology from an accredited educational
institution may pursue an associate degrees with a major in radiography at
Casper College.
Technologists will be expected to meet academic institutional degree
requirements for the associate of science degree.
A maximum of 20 clinical education credits will be awarded to all
registered technologists. A maximum of 27 didactic radiography credits
may be awarded if technologists can verify they are currently employed as
practicing radiographers. Individuals who have been unemployed beyond
one year will be required to take specific didactic radiography courses.
Interested technologists should contact the program director.