Programmatic Faculty
Program Director
Position Summary:
As an employee of Boise State, oversees the coordination and administration of all aspects of the Diagnostic Radiology program to include planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling programmatic activities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans the delivery of the overall program in accordance the overall mission and goals of the institution, college, and department.
- Develops and implements long-term goals and objectives for the successful outcomes of the program.
- Develops an assessment plan to evaluation the strengths and areas of improvement for the program.
- Ensures program activities operate within the policies and procedures of the organization and the JRCERT accreditation standards
- Organizes and oversees student recruitment, application and acceptance, and retention processes
- Ensures students are meeting programmatic learning outcomes, following institutional and programmatic policies, are adhering to ASRT Code of Ethics, and are operating within the standards set by the university and JRCERT.
- Reports program effectiveness outcomes and assessment outcomes to the university and JRCERT
- Works in conjunction with the Clinical Coordinator to ensure students are placed in appropriate and equitable clinical learning environments and are meeting clinical learning objectives.
- Participates in continuing education to improve evaluation skills and maintain professional competence.
Clinical Coordinator
Position Summary:
As an employee of Boise State, coordinates educational services in the clinical setting to achieve equity of student experience according to the established standards of the program.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develops and implements program goals, clinical objectives, and the clinical evaluation system; maintains student schedules for clinical sites.
- Evaluates and facilitates clinical education effectiveness through a schedule of regular contacts with the clinical education site(s).
- Assures the recording of continuing student health records, CPR competency, and insurance status. These will be communicated with the clinical sites each semester.
- Participates in continuing education to improve evaluation skills and maintain professional competence.
- Meets regularly with the university faculty to maintain current documentation of student clinical progress.
- Establishes standard methods of evaluation of student clinical performance and quality assurance.
- Adheres to the professional practice standards and the Code of Ethics.
- May participate in student recruitment and student selection processes.
- In conjunction with program director and instructor of RADSCI 234, publishes and updates student clinical education and policy manual on an annual basis.
- May function as “acting” program director as necessary.
- Facilitates clinical instructor meetings each semester.
- Provides for clinical instructor education at regularly scheduled clinical instructor meetings; coordinates continuing education for clinical instructors.
- Forwards department meeting minutes to adjunct university faculty and assesses student clinical progress on a monthly basis.
University Faculty
Position Summary:
As an employee of Boise State, provides instruction of programmatic courses. Must be ARRT(R) certified, in good standing with the ARRT, and an employee of Boise State.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides instruction for assigned courses based on workload, programmatic and departmental needs
- Creates course learning objectives, lecture materials, course assignments, course examinations and maintains the course management site (Blackboard) using the programmatic curricular plan, most current ASRT radiography curriculum guide, current radiography practice standards, current scope of practice for radiographers, current literature/research and requiring higher orders of learning such as critical thinking, problem solving, analysis and evaluation.
- Makes time available to meet with students outside class time via open office hours and/or appointment.
- Provides regular, timely feedback on student progress and successes.
- Reports back to the program director with student concerns and/or concerns with student success.