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Radiography Class of '96 "Aces" Certification Exam
Photos and Story by Mark Evertz
The entire class of 1996 graduates from Portland Community College’s Radiography program passed the national certification examinations, conducted in October. There were 24 students in the two-year medical program. The class average was 90 percent: The national average score was 81.04 percent. The program is located at the Sylvania Campus.
"These scores will put our students at the very top of all 750 programs in the U.S.," said Betty Palmer, director of the program.
Alice Jacobson, executive dean of Sylvania Campus, said, "These scores are a great accomplishment and the students and faculty are to be congratulated."
Radiographers are important members of the health care team and work in close relationship with physicians and particularly, with radiologists. The radiographer is primarily concerned with providing diagnostic radiographic images of disease and injury and assisting in patient care. Radiographers are employed in hospitals, clinics and medical offices.
For more information about PCC’s Radiography program, please call Julie Walston at 977-4908.