In addition to the Core Curriculum courses, mathematics, and laboratory sciences taken on the Ball State campus, students take other coursework and complete clinical and internship experiences at Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Inc. in Indianapolis and designated minor clinical affiliates in Central Indiana. After satisfactory completion of these programs, students will be eligible to take the appropriate state and national certification examinations. If you are interested in an allied health program, you should talk with a faculty advisor about the selection process. Nuclear medicine technologists are highly skilled people who have solid backgrounds in anatomy, physiology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, radiation safety, clinical nuclear instrumentation, and selected laboratory techniques. Radiation therapy technologists are highly skilled professionals who are qualified to provide radiation therapy-related patient services under the supervision of a radiation oncologist or, where appropriate, a medical radiation physicist.
Radiographers are members of the health-care team skilled in producing radiographs.
They position the patients, operate the equipment, and evaluate radiographs for their diagnostic quality. In hospitals, they not only work in radiology departments but also in surgery, emergency rooms, intensive-care units, and at patients' bedsides using mobile equipment. With additional training after graduation, radiographers may specialize in computerized tomography, neuro- and angiographic procedures, magnetic resonance imaging, digital vascular imaging, and cardiac catheterization. The program includes courses in basic life sciences, health science, health education, and professional teacher preparation. A teaching minor in one of the sciences, physical education, vocational home economics, or social studies is recommended.