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Standard Four: Curriculum and Academic Practices

4.2 The program provides a well-structured curriculum that prepares students
to practice in the professional discipline.

Explanation:

A well-structured curriculum must be comprehensive, current, appropriately sequenced, and provide for
evaluation of student achievement. This allows for effective student learning by providing a knowledge
foundation in didactic and laboratory courses prior to competency achievement. Continual refinement of
the competencies achieved is necessary so that students can demonstrate enhanced performance in a
variety of situations and patient conditions. The well-structured curriculum is guided by a master plan of
education.
At a minimum, the curriculum should promote qualities that are necessary for students/graduates to
practice competently, make ethical decisions, assess situations, provide appropriate patient care,
communicate effectively, and keep abreast of current advancements within the profession. Expansion of
the curricular content beyond the minimum is required of programs at the bachelor’s degree or higher
levels.

Use of a standard curriculum promotes consistency in radiation therapy education and prepares the
student to practice in the professional discipline. All programs must follow a JRCERT-adopted curriculum.
An adopted curriculum is defined as:

• the most recent American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Radiation Therapy
curriculum and/or
• another professional curriculum adopted by the JRCERT Board of Directors.

The JRCERT encourages innovative approaches to curriculum delivery methods that provide students
with flexible and creative learning opportunities. These methods may include, but are not limited to,
distance education courses, part-time/evening curricular tracks, service learning, and/or interprofessional
development.

Required Program Response:

• Describe how the program’s curriculum is structured.
• Describe the program’s clinical competency-based system.
• Describe how the program's curriculum is delivered, including the method of delivery for
distance education courses. Identify which courses, if any, are offered via distance education.
• Describe alternative learning options, if applicable (e.g., part-time, evening and/or weekend
curricular track(s)).
• Describe any innovative approaches to curriculum delivery methods.
• Provide the Table of Contents from the master plan of education.
• Provide current curriculum analysis grid.
• Provide samples of course syllabi.