Christ Hospital School of Radiography
Clinical Education
The purpose of the clinical internship is to provide the student with clinical experience necessary to integrate the cognitive and psychomotor aspects of the radiography program. This experience is gained through a planned and structured clinical education. Students are rotated through various areas of the Radiology Department on a two week assignment schedule. Clinical education sites offer a sufficient quantity of a variety of radiologic procedures to provide a more than adequate clinical education requirements of the State of New Jersey and the State of New York. A clinical instructor is assigned to each clinical site. Students are taught to assist radiologists, manipulate imaging equipment, position patients, make the required radiographic exposure and procedure radiographs. As part of the medical term, students work with other professionals, such as physicians, nurses, physicists and other allied health professionals.
