According to L. 10 August 2000, n. 251, art. 3, subsection 1, Graduates in " medical and image radiology and radiotherapy techniques are healthcare professionals in the technical-diagnostic and technical care area who practice with professional autonomy the technical procedures needed to carry out diagnostic methods on biological material or on the individual, in compliance with regulations about professional profiles provided for by Decree of the Ministry of Health.
Graduates of the class possess adequate grounding in core disciplines, so that they can better understand the main element at the basis of pathological processes upon which their diagnostic intervention in the evolutive, adult and geriatric age is needed.
They should also be able to use at least one European Union language, besides Italian, in their specific professional field and to exchange general information.
The Educational bodies should therefore identify and design various educational programmes for the different profiles envisaged by the Ministry of Health.
For this purpose, educational bodies will design specific educational programmes for the various health professions belonging to this class,, through the selection of the disciplinary ambits of class-related activities, with respect, in particular, to the professionalising scientific-disciplinary sectors.
The achievement of the professional skills is carried out through a theoretical and practical educational programme including also the acquisition of behavioural competence and that is achieved in the specific professional context, so as to guarantee, at the conclusion of the degree course, the full command of all the necessary skills and their immediate practice in the job environment.
The formative practical activity and clinical training, as integral and qualifying part of professional training has a special importance, and it is carried out under the supervision and guidance of professional tutors, coordinated by a teacher belonging to the highest educational level .
Graduates should:
- Be able to apply scientific and experimental method to the study of anatomical-physiological and technological phenomena, being able to use for this purpose, the basic principles of physics, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology applied to technological issues of image diagnostics;
- Know the anatomical-functional role of various biological structures in the organisation of cells as well as of the human organism;
- Acquire the knowledge needed to understand biological phenomena, as well as the main functioning mechanisms of organs and apparatus, and possess deep anatomical and structural knowledge of organs apparatus, above all in their reciprocal topographic distribution;
- Identify diagnostic and therapeutical problems raised by the specialist doctor, through imaging and therapeutical technologies;
- Acquire basic cultural and professional principles to apply diagnostic and therapeutical technology, understand them and exploit all their potentialities, carry out quality controls, and be able to identify and contribute to the choice of best analysis processes;
- Know biological hazards related to their professional actions and be able to optimize the relevant applicative processes, through the surveillance, updating and adaptation to technological development of their professional tasks;
- Be able to analyse, elaborate transmit and file the results of their professional actions, thanks to the acquisition of the needed statistic and computing skills;
- Be able to fit in and to interact with both public and private health production and prevention networks;
The achievement of the professional skills is carried out through a theoretical and practical educational programme including also the acquisition of behavioural competence as well as through adequate practical educational activities and clinical training; this latter, in particular, should comply with European standards, with respect to its duration and to the kind of planned and realized actions.
Graduates of this course should:
- Know general principles of pathology with respect to the relevant aspects, to the effects of ionizing radiations and of radiological, nuclear medical and radio-therapeutical techniques;
- Carry out the most important radiographic incidences and projections and know the various procedural techniques of image diagnostics, acquiring also technical competences to cooperate to the execution of echographic, computer tomographic and magnetic resonance (NMR) tests;
- Know general principles of computer science and of computer applications in the radiologic sector, with respect to the filing of images, medical reports and clinical-medical data; acquire also knowledge for the surveying, filing and transmission of images;
- Know how to use diagnostic and therapeutical radiations and radioactive tracers, as well how to apply the main radioprotection rules;
- Know the sources of ionizing radiations and of other energies used in Diagnostics and/or Radiotherapy and the relevant measurement standard;
- Know the main structural and functioning characteristic of the used equipment;
- Be able to choose and use the adequate technologies and materials in order to produce radiological images and radiant therapies;
- Learn the general principles of interactions between radiations and living beings;
- Learn procedures for radioprotection, environment decontamination, use of radio nuclides and labelling of radio-compounds;
- Know technologies and materials for the production of images and radiant therapies and the parameters characterising the energies used for image extraction;
- Know both static and dynamic nuclear medicine research techniques;
- Acquire competences for the technical assistance to radio-therapeutical treatments, as well as for the preparation and usage of shields and patient constriction systems;
- Be informed about the general principles of NM therapy(radio-metabolic, etc...) and acquire competence for preparing doses, controlling the patient, eliminating organic waste, for decontamination actions;
- Know the bases of work organisation and of cooperation with other healthcare professions, as well as the economic-financial aspects of healthcare;
- Know ethical and deontological issues related to the profession, apply the relevant rules, paying attention to the relation with citizens requiring his/her professional activity, and above all to the respect of their rights, even through self-limitation.
Graduates, participating in the planning and organisation of the work within the facilities they work in, plan and execute polyvalent services in cooperation with the radio-diagnostic, nuclear, specialist doctors as well as with the radio-therapist physicist and the medical physicist, according to diagnostic and therapeutical protocols defined by the person in charge of the structure. They are also liable of their actions, namely through the check of correct functioning of equipment, the solution of little technical problems and the implementation of quality control programmes, according to predefined programmes. They participate actively to their professional lifelong learning and to research activities
