GE 022–Anatomy and Physiology II—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This is an advanced course in Anatomy and Physiology, where details of structures and functions of the human body systems will be discussed in various disease states. Pathophysiology of all major organ systems will be addressed while comparing them in the state of health versus disease, focusing mainly on functions and pathological abnormalities. Various clinical implications and possible deviations from each organ system’s norm will be discussed throughout the course. This is a General Education course.
GE 103–Growth and Development Through Lifespan—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course discusses the existing theories of growth and development. It focuses on understanding the dynamic sequence of biological, psychological, and sociological changes that occur through the life cycle from birth to death. This is a General Education Course.
GE 111–Research Statistics—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is preparation for RN 305–Nursing Research. The course introduces statistical test tools, the conditions under which these tools are used, statistical calculation, and the meaning of statistics. The tools are also discussed as the basis of data analysis, probability, and statistical inference and their importance in decision-making. This is a General Education Course.
GE 120–Introduction to Information Systems–45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course introduces personal computer application software, hardware components, and the Internet. The course introduces word processing, electronic spreadsheet, databases, and presentation software. This is a General Education Course.
GE 202–General Psychology—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course includes the study of basic methods and concepts of psychology, which have broad academic relevance and can be applied to the study of psychology and other academic disciplines. This is a General Education Course.
GE 221–Written Communication for Professionals—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
The ability to write clearly and effectively is key to professional communication. This set of skills should not be limited to journalists or experienced authors. This course will discuss overcoming common mistakes and improving communication using the written word.
This writing skills course includes sections on spelling, grammar, the importance of structure, and formal and informal writing styles. This course also covers the skills needed to learn, communicate, and understand others’ ideas more effectively. This is a General Education Course.
GE 240–Public Speaking, Basics of Effective Communication—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course introduces interpersonal relationships, group interactions, formal speaking, skills development in listening, speech preparation, and oral presentation. This is a General Education Course.
GEH 101–Organization and Function of Health Services—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on healthcare and delivery of services: identification and function of governmental, private, and voluntary organizations; programs in health protection and promotion at local, state, and national levels. This is a General Education Course.
GEH 301–Ethics and Law in Health Science—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course examines health law and ethics and their financial and emotional impact on healthcare professionals, patients, and healthcare facilities. Course content includes legal and compliance issues affecting both the employee and employer. Topics include administrative law, professional malpractice, patient rights, risk management, labor law, contract law, and ethical considerations. This is a General Education Course.
DMI 330–Advanced Radiobiology—60 Clock Hours/4 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will provide the radiologic science professional with theories and principles of ionizing radiation with living systems. Radiation effects on biological molecules & organisms and factors impacting biological response are explored. Acute and long-term effects of ionizing radiation exposure are discussed. Applications in diagnostic and therapeutic settings are presented.
DMI 340–Quality Control in Diagnostic Imaging–60 Clock Hours/4 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
Training and managing image quality and patient dose in film screen and digital radiology systems will be presented. This course will introduce new regulations and discuss new challenges for practitioners. Radiographers will learn to ensure that the department’s imaging capability and radiation dose management are integrated and maintained. Quality control will be discussed in-depth, including procedures and protocols, visualization, transmission, and image archiving.
DMI 360–Health Science Management—60 Clock Hours/4 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is designed to provide entry-level managers with various tools and theories from which to choose. A marked focus is offered on the evaluation and resolution of personnel issues. An emphasis is placed on the ultimate responsibility of supervisors and managers for the performance of their staff. The text provides information and guidance to obtain maximum results from others. Getting things done through people is a crucial component of this text.
DMI 370–Professional Capstone Portfolio Project—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This is an independent study project where students will prepare a professional E-portfolio. This portfolio is to be worked on by the BS DMI students throughout the program, starting from their first semester until completion of the BS DMI program. It comprises many individual projects and documents preparing the student for professional practice as an imaging professional with a Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Medical Imaging.
DMI 410–Leadership and Performance—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
Leadership and performance is a dynamic exploration of the Universal Laws of Performance and how to apply them personally or to any organization. Used by notable businesses worldwide, these laws open doors to discover and create cultures within a company that will alter the course of any organization. This course guides you to discover the universal laws and how to apply them using case studies of three (3) organizations.
DMI 420–Operations and Human Resource Management in Diagnostic Imaging—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on various issues, including applying Operations Management techniques in radiologic and diagnostic imaging. We will identify protocols, policies, procedures, marketing services, customer management, and satisfaction methods. This course will provide the student with the foundation necessary to address the day–to–day issues an imaging administrator will experience. This course will foster the student’s goal of achieving their Certified Radiology Administrator Certification (CRA).
DMI 430–Financial and Asset Management in Radiology–45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will represent a cross-section of today’s imaging profession and give students insight into Radiology’s financial and asset management system and its processes. This course will aid imaging professionals in preparing for the Certified Radiology Administer examination by providing educational materials specific to the field. This course will discuss in-depth insights and analyses on financial and asset management, strategic planning, and implementing a SWOT analysis to increase total performance.
DMI 440–Digital Radiography and PACS—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This comprehensive course will investigate many facets of imaging informatics: information technology, imaging modality capabilities, supervision of modality integration, establishing programs for image display quality control, and recognition of specific hazards to the healthcare environment. In addition, students will learn to identify and implement medical imaging standards: DICOM, HL–7, MQSA, ACR, and ICD–9, SMOMED. This course prepares students for the Imaging Informatics Professional Certification exam, offered by the American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII).
DMI 450–Communication and Education in Imaging Informatics—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This is an inclusive course discussing the roles and relationships in healthcare settings, medical terminology, communications relating to system availability or changes, feedback, and feedback mechanisms. Furthermore, this course will explore performance needs assessment, training programs, implementation training, and evaluations of effectiveness training. This course prepares students for the Imaging Informatics Professional Certification exam, offered by the American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII).
DMI 460–Systems Management in Imaging Informatics—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will explore digital imaging systems procurement, project management, and operations. Additionally, systems management will be introduced, including; cost analysis, system capacity, throughput, disaster plan recovery, business continuity strategies, use problem management, data migration procedures, and data security and individual privacy. This course prepares students for the Imaging Informatics Professional Certification exam, offered by the American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII).
DMI 470–Teaching Strategies for Adult Learners in Health Science—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course imparts essential information on motivating, mentoring, and instructing using scientifically based teaching strategies and tactics. There is information on providing individualized instruction in classrooms with multiple learning and behavior problems and how curricula and instruction can be designed to teach functional repertoires and critical thinking rather than inert ideas. The course also discusses determining the effectiveness of curricular initiatives toward meeting standards and course objectives.
DMI 480–Curriculum Design in Diagnostic Imaging Sciences—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course covers a unique type of curriculum called “competency-based.” Though not unique to diagnostic medical imaging, we will emphasize curriculum design related to the imaging sciences. This class will take you through understanding, designing, implementing, and accrediting a competency-based curriculum in a diagnostic medical imaging program.
DMI 490–Methods of Teaching Online Course—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course introduces teaching methods applicable to any Allied Health Sciences coursework.
DMI 510–Principles of Computed Tomography—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course introduces the student to digital imaging processing and image quality. Students will discuss and identify the concepts of data acquisition. In addition, knowledge of the basic principles of sectional anatomy and CT protocols and procedures related to various body parts will be analyzed. Course topics will include digital imaging processing, data acquisition concepts, radiation dose, sectional anatomy, CT imaging protocols and technique, and pediatric CT imaging.
DMI 520–Advanced Applications of Computed Tomography—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course introduces the student to the basic principles of physics and instrumentation related to computed tomography. Course topics will include historical perspectives of the modality, physics, and physical characteristics of the computed tomography process, data acquisition, scanner design, image processing, and image quality.
DMI 530–Computed Tomography Registry Review—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course reviews the computed tomography curriculum and prepares students for the CT post-primary certification examination covering the registry exam content specifications, Patient Care, Safety, Image Production, and Procedures. This course also includes CT Basics ASRT modules and satisfies CT’s 16-credit Structured Education Requirements.
DMI 540–Physical Principles of MRI—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This unit provides the student with a comprehensive overview of MR imaging principles. The subjects are formatted in individual outlines and sequenced according to the level of knowledge desired. Topics include nuclear MR signal production, tissue characteristics, pulse sequencing, imaging parameters/options, and image formation.
DMI 550–Advanced Applications in MRI—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will provide the student with imaging techniques related to the CNS, neck, thorax, musculoskeletal system, and abdominopelvic regions. Students will learn specific clinical applications, available coils, and their use, considerations in the scan sequences, specific choices in the protocols (i.e., slice thickness, phase direction, flow compensation), and positioning criteria.
Anatomical structures and the plane that best demonstrates anatomy will be discussed, and signal characteristics of normal and abnormal structures. Pharmacology, as it pertains to MRI, will be addressed. Students will demonstrate their practices by applying their didactic knowledge in their laboratories.
DMI 560–MRI Safety and Registry Review—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will prepare students to pass the required registry board exams to work as MRI Technologists. This course includes a review of the MRI program, and the students will take mock registry board exams and practice tests. Students will learn effective ways to study and answer questions from the registry.
This course provides basic knowledge of MR safety, patient preparation, and monitoring of patients in the MR suite. This information enables the student to communicate better with the healthcare team to ensure patient safety. Health effects and safety issues are important aspects of this diagnostic modality.
DMI 570–Principles of Mammography—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is designed to educate radiographers in the art and science of mammography. Enrollees in the course must have a California Certified Radiologic Technologist (CRT) license OR be a student in a JRCERT-accredited program. The course consists of 40 hours of lecture, which will assist in preparing for the California Mammography Certificate exam and the Post-Primary Certification in Mammography.
DMI 580–Advanced Applications in Mammography—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course will offer students an understanding of breast ultrasound history, breast cancer, diagnosis and imaging, principles, equipment, breast anatomy and normal appearances, exam techniques, image interpretation, recording and reporting, benign and malignant disease, imaging of the augmented breast, breast disease in males, and interventional techniques. This is an overview course of breast ultrasound.
DMI 590–Mammography Registry Review—45 Clock Hours/3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is designed to prepare the students for the registry exam for mammography. Course topics will include history, patient education, anatomy, physiology and pathology of the breast, benign and malignant diseases, equipment, processing and quality management, common imaging procedures, emerging technologies, interventional procedures and treatment options review, and MQSA standards.
