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About the Bachelor of Science in Medical Imaging Technology (Online)

The BS in Medical Imaging Technology is jointly offered by IUPUI, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, and IU South Bend.

Here's how the degree program works: you enroll at one of the participating campuses, and this campus becomes your home campus. You may then register for classes offered by your home campus or by any of other participating campuses. Your home campus will apply the credits you earn toward your BS in Medical Imaging Technology.

When you have completed all degree requirements, you receive a high-quality IU degree at your home campus.

Target Student Audience and Articulation of Associate/Baccalaureate Programs

The B.S. will serve students who hold Certification in Radiography (ARRT), Nuclear Medicine (ARRT or NMTCB), Sonography (ARRT or ARDMS) or Radiation Therapy (ARRT).  The degree will provide these students with an option to expand their knowledge in the non-clinical aspects of medical imaging while earning a Bachelor’s degree. Graduates will improve their long-term career prospects.

The B.S.M.I.T. is a 2 + 2 degree, articulating with A.A.S. degrees granted by Ivy Tech and other two-year institutions. Students may apply up to 60 credits from their Ivy Tech A.A.S. degrees to the B.S.M.I.T. degree. Students in the program will be required to complete approximately 60 Indiana University credits: including approximately 30 credit hours of general education, 18 hours in the B.S.M.I.T. Core, and 12 hours in a specialty track (Health Management, Radiologic Sciences Education, or Informatics/Health Information Administration).

Students will be able to apply as many as 77 credit hours earned in an Indiana University A.S. in Radiography towards the IU online B.S.M.I.T.

Collaboration with Similar or Related Programs on Other Campuses

This is a joint degree to be offered by the four IU campuses with established on-campus medical imaging technology programs. A faculty team, with representation from each campus, developed the shared curricular framework for this degree. The joint degree format permits the campuses to share faculty resources and thereby provide educational opportunities to students in their regions that those students might not otherwise have. Students may take B.S.M.I.T. courses from any of the four campuses and have those courses apply to their degree requirements at their home campus.

Program Goals and Learning Outcomes

Students will gain knowledge and skills in the following core areas:

Medical Imaging Technology Principles & Procedures

•  Explain the basic imaging principles for a variety of imaging modalities
• Compare and contrast the various modalities in terms of radiation sources, uses, and safety
• Discuss the history of the medical imaging profession
• Analyze new uses and new procedures in medical imaging

Anatomy

• identify anatomical structures of the head, thorax, abdomen and extremities
• describe relationships of structures to one another
• discuss the difference appearance of anatomy from one modality to another

Pathology

• Explain the different disease states that are seen or treated within the field of radiology
• Determine which radiologic procedures are used in the diagnosis and treatment of various disease states
• Analyze how physicians use patient data and images for use in patient case management

Research in Medical Imaging Technology

• Demonstrate computer skills needed to perform a literature search
• Formulate a research question
• Research a selected topic
• Use a variety of multi-media tools to produce images for presentations and posters
• Disseminate scientific information in a professional quality poster and research paper
• Investigate the basic tenets of human subjects research
• Explain patient’s right to privacy regarding their medical data

Credit Hours Required/Time To Completion

This is a 120 credit hour program. Students entering the program will transfer in 60 credit hours from their A.A. /A.A.S. degrees according to specifications above. Therefore, full-time students are expected to complete the degree in two academic years (four semesters). Many of the courses for the online degree already exist, but some campuses will need to add online versions of courses they formerly offered only on campus. Students who identify or have taken courses that they believe are equivalent may petition to have those courses count toward the degree. This is an advantage of this degree program since it is achievement of student learning outcomes that is paramount.

Academic Advising

College policy on advising requires that students meet with their academic advisors at least once each year, and in some departments, prior to each semester’s to enrollment. Advising holds are placed on all Vera Z. Dwyer College of Health Science medical imaging students prior to advance registration and are released following advising appointments. Students with a declared major are advised in their academic units. To determine who your advisor is and how to contact them, see One.IU.

General Education Curriculum

Courses from accredited schools can be transferred and applied to the BSMIT. Submission of an official credit transfer report (CTR) is required for all work transferred from another accredited school. To obtain an official CTR, the student must request an official transcript from all institutions, except IU systemwide campuses and be forwarded to the IU South Bend Office of Admissions for evaluation. Each student record is individually evaluated for applicability of courses towards the general-education requirements. Students must also submit official transcripts to the IU South Bend Radiography/Medical Imaging Department to fulfill BSMIT Clinical Program application requirements.

Students who received an associate degree from an accredited program will be considered transfer students for the purpose of fulfilling the campuswide general education requirements at IU South Bend. All courses certified as meeting the campuswide general-education requirements are designated in the Schedule of Classes.

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