Why does the Legislative Committee recommend joining the NSAMRT college?
When your numbers are too small to create your own college, it is very important to consider who you want to form a college with. The disciplines of radiography, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging and radiation therapy share more commonalities with sonography than any other health profession. With the exception of radiation therapy, we are all mostly grouped together in diagnostic imaging departments and so come under the same management in our workplace and work with the same physicians.We all face common problems and share the same unions. NSAMRT are who we are most comfortable with because many of us have come from this background or are currently working across disciplines in the NSAMRT. Cost is a major consideration. The number of people practicing diagnostic sonography in Nova Scotia is around 100. When we consider even the initial costs of drawing up a draft of legislation the legal fees are approximately $10,000. Sonographers as group alone cannot bear the cost of ini
