SCHOOL OF RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY STUDENT HANDBOOK

INTRODUCTION Welcome to the School of Radiologic Technology. This student handbook is designed to answer most of the questions you may have about the school. Please read it carefully and keep it as a guide throughout all aspects of your training. This handbook includes information regarding the Program’s:  Mission, Goals and Objectives  Organization and Administrative Information  Policies and Procedures  Resource Information We believe you will be greatly influenced by those who make-up the school. The administrators, faculty and staf are here to teach you and serve you in many diferent roles. They will demonstrate a sincere concern for your growth – first, intellectually, as you learn and are trained to become a highly-skilled technologist; and second, as you become a caring, mature and professional member of our health care team. Reviewed & Revised December, 2020 4 OVERVIEW OF RADIOLOGY Sinai-Grace Hospital is a 400+ bed teaching hospital and ofers a complete range of medical, surgical, maternity and emergency services. Services are provided to all patients regardless of religion, race, ethnic identification or economic status. Sinai-Grace Hospital is specially equipped to be accessible to the handicapped. The main Department of Radiology occupies a large part of the sixth floor and includes general radiography, fluoroscopy, CT, special procedures and nuclear medicine. The Emergency Department and Out-Patient Radiology is located on the ground floor and contains general radiography and two CT scanners. Ultrasound services are located also on the ground floor. The large bore MRI suite is located on the ground floor at the western end of the hospital. Mammography services are located in the Professional Office Building. Additional radiographic equipment is utilized in the Surgical Suite, Endoscopy, Emergency, Trauma, and at the patient’s bedside. The Department of Radiology, located within the confines of the hospital, performs over 160,000 examinations in a variety of procedure areas. Over 110,000 radiology procedures are performed in the Emergency Department annually. Sinai-Grace is the primary trauma center for this area of metropolitan Detroit, handling over 100,000 visits per year. The nature and frequency of examinations performed in the hospital provide radiography students with excellent education experiences. The Sinai-Grace School of Radiographic Technology is a 24 month, self-contained program, including both didactic and clinical education. The goal of the curriculum is to provide a unified, correlated sequence of instruction and experience to prepare the student to meet the objectives and become a caring, efficient, capable and professional radiologic technologist. Reviewed & Revised December, 2020 5 SCHOOL OF RADIOAGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY MISSION The Sinai-Grace Hospital School of Radiographic Technology is committed to the education and development of radiology students in order that they may fully participate in the highest quality health care services in a caring, efficient and professional manner. The education provided prepares the student to enter the job market in diagnostic imaging. The education also instills life long learning values and assists the student in achieving their personal, as well as professional, goals. SCHOOL OF RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY GOALS Sinai-Grace Hospital School of Radiographic Technology serves the radiographic community and its students by reaching and maintaining the following goals:  Students will use critical thinking.  Students/Graduates will be clinically competent.  Students/Graduate will communicate efectively.  Students/Graduates will evaluate the importance of professional growth and development. Reviewed & Revised December, 2020 6 AN OVERVIEW OF SINAI-GRACE HOSPITAL Sinai-Grace Hospital is a regional campus of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), serving northwest Detroit and surrounding communities. Sinai-Grace Hospital was founded in 1999 with the merger of two excellent neighboring health care facilities, Sinai and Grace Hospitals. Grace opened in 1888, Sinai in 1953. The current campus is located at 6071 West Outer Drive. Sinai-Grace is known for excellence in patient care, cultural diversity of its patients, employees and physicians, and its commitment to the community. A full-service hospital, Sinai Grace ofers both basic and complex care close to home. We provide a broad range of high quality, cost-efective service to meet community needs, in coordination with other system operating units. We endeavor to take a leadership role for the system in providing key services where our resources ofer unique teaching, scholarly research and clinical service opportunities. Through a close integration of community-based practitioners with the Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine faculty, we enhance teaching programs and patient care. Sinai-Grace has over 1,200,000 square feet. In addition to its 400 beds, the hospital has 13 operating rooms, two Cystoscopy rooms, and a four-room Endoscopy suite, 14 Labor/Delivery rooms, a Radiation Oncology Center and a dedicated Cardiac Catherization Laboratories. MISSION OF SINAI GRACE HOSPITAL Reviewed & Revised December, 2020 7 Our Mission is: To provide high quality, compassionate, and innovative care to the