Education in radiologic technology: an analysis

One of the most important goals for the radiologic technology profession is to base its educational programs on evaluation of competence, therby assuring the employers, consumers, government agencies and other professionals that the profession is striving for quality performance by its graduates. The profession of radiologic technology is in a period of changes as Virginia A. Milligan so adequately described in her Jerman Memorial Lecture, "The Anatomy of Change". To achieve cohesiveness and accomplishment of goals, this change must be recognized and accepted, otherwise, fragmentation will result and destruction of the profession will occur from within.