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Pulse

Volume 2, Number 1 April 2016

A Publication of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology

From the CEO Inside this issue:

Greetings, and welcome to statement on the JRCERT Updating Deactivated 2
spring! The JRCERT Board of Standards regarding Clinical Settings
Directors has just completed its mammography clinical Meet the New Board! 3
April 2016 meeting, April 7-8, rotations. Please be sure to
here in Chicago and several key read the articles regarding JRCERT Organizational 3
decisions were made that will these important decisions in Report
affect all of our accredited this issue of the Pulse and Accreditation Manage- 4
programs. For example, the review the Summary of the ment System (AMS)
Directors approved the April 2016 Board Meeting.
discontinuance of the current The Board Meeting Summary CIHQ Approved to 4
Leslie Winter, M.S., R.T.(R) Accredit Clinical Settings
process requiring programs to is also available at Chief Executive Officer
deactivate/reactivate clinical www.jrcert.org under the Position Statement on 5
education settings. The board About Accreditation tab. Mammography
Rotations
also adopted a position Leslie
Assessment Corner 5

Standards Revision 6
will be identified simply as “Approved”
settings. The rationale for the elimina- Program Annual Report 6
PROGRAM ACTION tion of the “Deactivated” status is de- JRCERT Welcomes 6
REQUIRED tailed on page 2 together with a link to New Programs
instructions on how to complete the
BY JUNE 1st one-time update. ASRT Module on 7
All updates or disaffiliations of clinical Student Supervision
settings identified as “Deactivated“ on Image Gently Campaign 8
your program database must be submit-
ted no later than June1st.

Effective immediately, programs will See page 2 for more details.
no longer need to deactivate/
reactivate clinical settings based on
varying student rotation schedules. The JRCERT is the only agency recognized by the United States
Department of Education (USDE) and the Council for Higher
Programs with clinical settings cur- Education Accreditation (CHEA) for the accreditation of tradi-
rently identified as “Deactivated” will tional and distance delivery education programs in radiography,
radiation therapy, magnetic resonance, and medical dosimetry.
therefore need to perform a one-
time update of these settings or disaf-
filiate them. Any updated settings