This course provides an overview of the health care delivery system from a historical, economic, legal/ethical, and political framework.

The course will provide students with an ethical framework for decision-making in the context of a pluralistic society.  Models and principles of ethical justification among a diversity of cultures and belief systems will be analyzed.  Specific applications are made to concerns in clinical and healthcare management.  Topics include the right to healthcare, community health ethics, end-of-life issues, and organizational ethics.  F, Sp

The course provides students with and introduction to assessing the magnitude, relaibility, validity, and precision of associations (e.g. between exposures and disease) and making inferences about target populations using data from samples in the health professions. Topics include pobability and sampling distribution, research design and analysis of variance, regression and correlation, stochastic processes, and frequency distributions, Prereq MATH III.

This course includes an overview of leadership, administration, decision-making, and organization within the health care system. Emphasis is placed upon leadership styles and application of the functions of leadership to situations in the health care environment. Prereq HP 211

This course provides an overview of financial systems. Selected health care financial management concepts including payment incentives, integrated systems, cost management, pricing and marketing, productivity monitoring, insurance coding, and
quality improvement will be studied as they relate to various types of health care organizations. Selected computer applications to demonstrate budgeting, forecasting, data base integration and variance analysis will be used.
Prereq: HP 211.

Content

This course focuses on health care marketing and strategic planning in health care. The increasing complexity of the health care system dictates a need for an organized approach to strategy, and one that ties key market issues and needs to a definitive market position, quantifiable objectives, and finally to strategies and actions aimed at achieving the position and objectives. This course allows the student to learn such an organized approach to marketing and strategy. A strategic analysis and plan, as a means to introduce the principles and concepts of strategy applicable to health care, will be conducted. Prereq: HP 211.

This course examines the issues important to the radiographers and radiologic technologist practicing in the field of radiography. Human diversity, ethics, health care systems, hospital organizations, radiology organizations, accreditation, professional credentialing, professional organizations, and professional development are studied in relation to the field of technology. Prereq: Pre-radiology majors and students admitted to the radiologic and imaging sciences programs or consent of instructor. Sp

The course is designed to emphasize the need for critical thinking and to identify factors that hinder critical thinking. This course focuses on identifying the qualities of a critical thinker through
the review of numerous case studies, performance case studies for the ionized laboratory, and critical analysis of radiographs.
Prerequisites: Pre-radiology majors and students admitted to the Radiologic and Imaging Sciences programs or consent of instructor.

This course provides the student with a detailed study of the computed tomography andmagnetic resonance imaging physics and instrumentation information.
Course topics include principles of operation, system components,
image characteristics, image resolution, image quality, scan design for spiral computed tomography, nuclear magnetism, precession of nuclei, armor frequencies, production of the nuclear magnetic resonance signal, nuclear magnetic resonance pulses, nuclear magnetic resonance decay, production of the magnetic resonance image, magnetic resonance imaging equipment, image quality, image contrast, paramagnetic contrast agents, safety, and biological hazards.

Prereq: Acceptance in the Radiologic Technology program.

Content

This course focuses on clinical education principles and procedures for radiology programs. Lesson plan formation, unit plan organization,teaching strategies for the clinical educator, and evaluation methods are studied.
Prereq: Acceptance in the Radiologic Technology program. F