2011 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 32 Professions and Occupations
32-2804 School approval; standards; considerations

32-2804. School approval; standards; considerations

A. The board may approve a school of radiologic technology as maintaining a satisfactory standard if its course of study:

1. Is for a period of not less than twenty-four months of full-time study or its equivalent and is accredited by the committee on allied health accreditation or meets or exceeds the standards of this chapter.

2. Includes not less than four hundred hours of classroom work including radiation protection, x-ray physics, radiographic techniques, processing techniques, nursing procedures, anatomy and physiology, radiographic positioning, radiation therapy and professional ethics.

3. Includes not less than one thousand eight hundred hours devoted to clinical experience.

4. Includes demonstrations, discussions, seminars and supervised practice.

5. Includes not less than eighty hours of regularly scheduled supervised film critiques.

B. An approved school of radiologic technology may be operated by a medical or educational institution or other public or private agency or institution and, for the purpose of providing the requisite clinical experience, shall be affiliated with one or more hospitals that, in the opinion of the board, are likely to provide this experience.

C. In approving a school of radiologic technology, the board shall consider the standards adopted by appropriate professional organizations, including the joint review committee on education in radiologic technology, the American medical association, the American osteopathic association, the American college of radiology and the American osteopathic college of radiology, and may accept the certification of a school of radiologic technology or the accreditation of a hospital to provide requisite clinical experience, if the board finds that certification or accreditation was granted on the basis of standards that will afford the same protection to the public as the standards provided by this chapter.