Why are no two radiography programs identical?
There are a multitude of radiography programs throughout the United States (including several in Idaho). The vast majority are associate degree programs mainly offered by community colleges. Many similarities exist between these programs. For example, they all offer classroom, lab and clinical education based on accepted industry standards in diagnostic radiography. However, few are identical in terms of their program design and implementation. Some use the course titles and descriptions recommended by the ASRT radiography curriculum guide. Other programs generate their own titles and descriptions to reflect a particular specialized emphasis, registry examination content, or the embedding of content from two or more courses. Some provide more clinical education hours than others for the achievement of the same radiographic competencies. Often these differences will result in considerable differences in credit values between the same course that is offered at two or more radiography pro
