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Entering the Field of Mammography
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Overview
About this Webinar
This one hour webinar will take you through the steps needed to enter the field of mammography. You will learn the upcoming changes in the ARRT Mammography Clinical Experience Requirements and the changes to the ARRT Mammography Registry Exam if you are taking the test AFTER July 1, 2020. In addition I will give an FDA update in New Modality Training Requirements per the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA)
We will touch on practices to enlist due to the COVID-19 and how you interactions may change with patients post-COVID-19 and what needs to stay the same.
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Educational Objectives
Upon the completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the process for becoming a legal mammography technologist under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA)
- Recall the changes in Exam Content Specifications and Clinical Experience Requirements after July 1, 2020
- Demonstrate how to set up your ARRT Mammography Online Account
Schedule
- How to become a legal mammography technologist under MQSA
- Changes in the ARRT Exam Content Specifications after July 1, 2020
- Changes in the Clinical Experience Requirements after July 1
- How to set up your Mammography On-line Account
Question and Answers
Faculty
Name
Kathy DeGelder, BS
Kathy graduated from the State University of Cortland with a Bachelors in Science in 1979. She worked for Eastman Kodak Company for many years as a Marketing Education Specialist, concentrating in mammography education. She lectured primarily on mammography quality control nationwide for many years. Kathy taught mammography quality control for the FDA for several years in the MQSA inspector training program. She became a worldwide product manager for X-Rite, Inc. who is the primary manufacturer of mammography quality control instruments worldwide. At X-rite, she continued her mammography education courses until starting her own company Achieving Quality Imaging (AQI) in 1995. AQI conducted Initial Training in Mammography Courses as well as mammography education courses until merging with MTMI in September of 2013. She is now the Director of Women's Imaging for MTMI and will continue to teach and participate in a variety of mammography education courses.
Credits
ASRT Category A
This program provides 1 hours of Category A continuing education credit for radiologic technologists approved by ASRT and recognized by the ARRT and various licensure states. Category A credit is also recognized by CAMRT’s Continuing Education Credit Approval Program for CE credit in Canada. You must attend the entire program to receive your certificate of completion.
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