Changing needs and patterns in radiologic technology. I. Review of the current status of and estimation of future requirements for radiologic technologists.

Abstract

Projections for the Future in Schools of Radiologic Technology Although hospitals now produce all but a fraction of one per cent of radiologic technologists in the country, there is already a shift toward degree programs, particularly those being developed in junior colleges which have tripled since 1957 and now number nearly 1,000. Understandably, many of these colleges are becoming heavily involved with career or occupational programs in the allied health fields, including radiologic technology. The hospitals, faced with escalating costs of rendering patient care, are coming to the opinion that educational programs, especially in nursing and to a lesser extent in the technological fields allied to medicine, should no longer be subsidized by the patient's dollar and that financing should be assumed by the public through technical schools, colleges, and universities even though the hospitals continue to provide the practicum. Since many hospital schools have encountered difficulty in recruiting a competen...