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Medical Radiation Technology: Professional Practice in Canada (Canadian…

- - - - Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council (HPRC) - Ontario
        
        HPRC Jurisdictional Review (2008)
      - As of 2014, all licensed MRTs are required to have professional liability insurance coverage
    - - College Information
- - - - As of 2015, there were over 19,000 MRTs. The Radiologic Technology discipline makes up greatest percentage of the workforce.
      - Among the MRTs for which there is data, as of 2015, 88% have diploma level eduction, 11.7% have a bachelors degree level, and only 0.2% have a masters or doctorate level (the latter group of MRTs reside solely in Ontario).
      - As of 2015, 2.3% of the MRT workforce consists of those functioning in an educational role, 4.5% are in a managerial role, 6.1% are in a team leader/charge technologist role,
        83% function as staff technologists, providing direct medical radiation technology services, and the remaining have other roles.
- - - - QA "is a program used by management to maintain optimal diagnostic image quality with minimum hazard and distress to patients" (Health Canada, n.d.).
      - BC Diagnostic Accreditation Program (DAP)
    - - QI Video
      - CIHI Information
      - Health Quality Ontario
      - Canadian Foundation for Health QI
  - - - "A transition in care is a vulnerable point on their [the patient's] journey through the healthcare system. It is the point at which the majority (70%) of errors in healthcare occur" (CAMRT Best Practice Guidelines, n.d.).
      - National Competency Framework for Interprofessional Collaboration