CAMRT 2024 Conference Attendees: $0
Member Price: $10
Non-Member Price: $20.00
CAMRT reserves the right to verify membership status and to reclaim the difference between the member and non-member CPD course fees, should a discrepancy exist.
No continuing education credits
1) Identifying a need for MRT Clinical Educators: A Lower Mainland BC Case Study
Presenter: Kerri Smith, Manager, Clinical Specialty Education, Vancouver Coastal Health/ Lower Mainland Medical Imaging
The Education Portfolio in Lower Mainland BC has just recently launched an MRT/Sonographer Educator Portfolio to support the education and continuing competence of MRTs across the lifespan of their careers. This newly launched portfolio has a number of objectives including identifying gaps in professional development for MRTs, investigating upskilling and optimizing scope of practice, supporting the onboarding of new hires, collaborating with educational institutions and working with the BC Ministry of Health on the BC Allied Health initiative to attract, train, retrain and retain medical imaging staff.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the need for medical imaging educators.
- Discuss the goals of creating post graduate medical imaging educators.
- Define the role of the clinical educators.
- Share recent successes of the educator portfolio.
- Discuss the future of MRT clinical educators.
2) MRT Research and Quality Improvement in the Operational World
Presenter: Jean Nash, MRT(R)(MR), Lakeridge Health
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the attributes of a leader that contributes to furthering research and quality improvement in the operational world.
- Importance of culture change to the continued success of projects
- Appreciate the contributions of MRT led research to existing overall quality improvement and patient care