California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 5 - Sanitation (Environmental) › Subchapter 4.5 - Radiologic Technology › Group 2 - Training of Students of Radiologic Technology › Article 4 - Limited Permit X-Ray Technician Schools and Limited Podiatric Radiography Educational Programs › Section 30424 - Limited Permit X-Ray Technician Schools Teaching the Chest, Extremities, Leg-Podiatric, Skull, or Torso-Skeletal Categories

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Approved limited permit X-ray technician
						schools teaching the chest, extremities, leg-podiatric, skull, or torso-skeletal
						permit categories shall require that each student who graduates from the school
						complete, for each limited permit category, the following educational program,
						within 24 months of beginning the course of study. However, the program may not be
						less than six months:
(1) One hundred ninety (190)
						hours of education, which shall include the following:
Subject
Hours of
									 Instruction
..........................(A) Radiation
								  protection and safety
..........................50
..........................(B) Radiological
								  physics
..........................20
..........................(C) Principles of
								  Radiographic Exposure
..........................30
..........................(D) Equipment
								  operation, Quality Assurance and
								  Control
..........................10
..........................(E) Image
								  processing
..........................10
..........................(F) Medical
								  terminology
..........................5
..........................(G) Medical
								  ethics
..........................5
..........................(H) Patient
								  Care
..........................10
..........................(I) Image
								  Evaluation
..........................5
..........................(J) Anatomy and
								  physiology
..........................20
..........................(K) Digital
								  radiologic technology as specified in section
								  30410.2
..........................20
..........................(L) Pediatric and
								  Geriatric Radiography
..........................5
(2)
						For each category, the following hours of specific instruction in anatomy and
						physiology, and positioning:
Category
Hours of Instruction
									 Anatomy and Physiology
Hours of Instruction in
									 Positioning
(A)
								  Chest
5
5
(B) Extremities
15
15
(C) Leg-podiatric
5
5
(D) Skull
10
20
(E) Torso-skeletal
15
15
(3)
						Twenty hours of radiation protection laboratory during which each student shall
						conduct experiments that demonstrate:
(A) Methods
						of reducing dose per exposure to patient.
(B) Methods of reducing dose to
						personnel.
(C) Methods of reducing dose
						to general population.
(4) Ten
						(10) hours of general radiographic laboratory during which each student shall
						conduct experiments that demonstrate:
(A) Effects
						of kilovoltage, milliamperage, filtration, distance, and heel effect on radiographic
						contrast and detail.
(B) Control of
						scatter.
(5) Eight hours of
						quality assurance laboratory during which each student shall conduct experiments to
						illustrate the following:
(A) For chemical image
						processing, use of step wedge, densitometer and sensitometer; and
(B) For digital imaging processing, appropriate
						menu selection, body part placement, pre- and post-processing, and image receptor
						care including erasing and cleaning of receptors;
(6) Supervised clinical education for each
						category during which each student shall perform or assist in the performance of the
						following number of radiographic procedures:
Category
Number
								  of Procedures
(A)
								  Chest..........................
50
(B)
								  Extremities..........................
100 (50 procedures for upper and 50
								  procedures for lower extremities)
(C)
								  Leg-podiatric..........................
50
(D)
								  Skull..........................
40
(E)
								  Torso-skeletal..........................
200