The Harris County Hospital District, which serves the greater Houston area, has a School of Medical Radiography. The school offers a full-time, 2-year, hospital-based radiography program, beginning July of each year. During the two years, students are assigned to clinical rotations in all imaging modalities offered at Ben Taub General Hospital, Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, and Martin Luther King Community Health Center/Quentin Mease Community Hospital. Ben Taub General Hospital, one of the two level I trauma centers in Houston, offers students the unique opportunity to experience the dynamics of trauma care.
The Ben Taub and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospitals are premier county teaching hospitals. Even in Houston, Texas, a city with a healthy list of great hospitals and the world-renowned Texas Medical Center, Ben Taub Hospital has garnered the respect of the world as an elite Level 1 Trauma Center, one of only two in the Harris County area. The hospital, located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center, is a 650 licensed-bed acute care facility is one of the nation’s busiest trauma centers, caring for over 108,000 emergency patients each year. The hospital is the primary teaching hospital for Baylor College of Medicine, a Top 15 U.S. medical school according to the U.S. News and World Report.
Ben Taub’s Department of Medicine provides patients a comprehensive program of care with subspecialties for major areas such as endocrinology, cardiology, oncology, pulmonary, renal and gastroenterology. The Ben Taub Emergency Center is the source of eighty percent of all admissions to the hospital, which provides patients with access to more than 40 medical specialties. Ben Taub has more than 26,000 adult and pediatric admissions and more than 184,000 specialty clinic visits.
Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital is a 332 licensed-bed acute care hospital offering a full range of medical services, located on the northeast side of Houston, minutes away from downtown Houston. LBJ is a verified Level 3 Trauma Center and was the first Level 3 trauma center designated in the State of Texas. However, LBJ handles approximately three-to-four times the patient load of any other Level 3 trauma center in the region with more than 74,000 emergency patient visits each year, and more than 14,900 inpatient admissions. Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital is staffed by the faculty and residents of The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center.
The Harris County Hospital District radiographic technologist training program is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) and is approved for veterans training through the Department of Veterans Training. The JRCERT promotes excellence in education and enhances quality and safety of patient care through the accreditation of educational programs. The radiography program has been awarded an 8-year accreditation award. This is the highest accreditation award presented by the JRCERT. The 2008 pass rate for the ARRT exam is 100%.
In addition to fulfilling the admissions requirements, all students must attend one information session. The information sessions will be held at Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital in the Radiology Classroom, 1st floor, Room Number: 1RD-61-008
Dates and times for the information sessions are as follows:
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 6 p.m.-7 p.m.
References: http://www.hchdonline.com/about/schoolofrad/radiology.htm
Saturday, January 31, 2009
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4 comments:
if you are married do not allow your husband to go to this school. program is good but the instructors are not. female intructor's will have affairs w married students. my advise...do not go to this school.
I think you are right, the The Harris County Hospital is one of the best in this category, but they need more students and professionals in the emergency room. Especially if we are talking about programs with this characteristics.
My husband graduated Salutatorian from HCHD school.
It's a great program. You get first hand experience from one of the best trauma centers around and great education from an awesome faculty. My advice would be to follow your dreams and what better place to do it than a hospital based school.
I graduated from this program as the valedictorian of the class of 2004 with a GPA of 4.0. I can honestly say this program helped me very much in my career. All the staffs, including the instructors and the clinical staffs are very wonderfull, and they will provide you all the help you need. There is a very good chance for you to find a job in the harris county hospital district at your graduation. I strongly recommend this program to those who really want to be successfull in your medical career.
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