Radiography

Program (Faculty) Objectives

A graduate of the Faculty of Radiography should be able to:

• Adopt the strategies of the Elrazi University- Sudan and abide by its objectives, rules and regulations .
• Observe, in his/her practice, the health professional ethics which agree with the Nation’s values, beliefs and norms (as stated by Sudan Allied Health Professions’ Council), and maintain good and honest relations with her/his patients, their families, his/her colleagues across all sectors involved in health.
• Integrate basic, technical, clinical nursing and laboratory sciences in solving imaging problems of the individual relevant to radiological sciences and practice.
• Use scientific knowledge in radiology and imaging, according to known methods of problem solving and integration, and show understanding of the scientific structural (anatomical), functional (physiological, biochemical), morbid (microbiological, pathological), and technical (physics and equipment) therapeutic (pharmacological) background related to the problem.
• Attend professionally when imaging a patient with an emergency or multiple trauma and perform life-saving procedures and critical care, and decide and act properly on cases needing consultation with colleagues or referrals to specialized centers or personnel.
• Show patience and tolerate when sitting and/or standing for relatively longer time in doing works, especially indicated by patient or unit conditions, well beyond working hours.
• Handle chemical, biological and dangerous materials or ionizing radiations with caution and safety using the scientific approaches stated in procedures for dealing with these materials or radiations.
• Interact with patient and family in a friendly and humane manner and perform the medical history and physical examination according to the standard scheme, enough to carry out responsibilities of patient hygiene, prevention from injury, and vital sign recording according to the prescribed procedures.
• Obtain radiograph or other images from patients in the proper and timely manner and in a professional way, considering the technicalities and limitations of the machines in use.
• Accept to work in all settings, urban or rural, served or under-served, according to needs, and acts to improve health service delivery systems both quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Encourage community participation in patient and community health and help in recruiting various sectors in defining relevant health-related problems, planning and providing suitable imaging solutions, recognizing the community beliefs, ethics and traditional practices.
• Adhere to the “health team” approach, acting as an efficient member, accepting labor and responsibilities given to its members, and promoting both effectiveness and homogeneity among members.
• Continue to consider elements of efficiency, costing and economic implications in her/his radiological and imaging interventions.

1.  Acquire the skills of teaching, learning and communicating efficiently to carry out her/his duties in health education of explaining procedures to patients and in winning the confidence of them and their families
2. Show respect to patients, supervisors, and colleagues, using satisfactory communication with them together with keeping confidentiality in all levels of communication and care
3.   Acquire the skills of independent learning and contribute to availing opportunities for planning and implementing continuous educational activities to upgrade her/his own abilities and those of her/his colleagues in the health team, benefiting from information technology.
4. Carry out health, or health-related research in imaging, alone or with other members of a team in health or other relevant sectors, particularly medical physics and quality control, using known and approved scientific methods.
5. Use computers in word processing of (both Arabic and English), presentations, spreadsheets, statistic packages and graphics to achieve success in other objectives of her/his career.