PROFESSIONAL TRAINEESHIP 1

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2023/2024
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2023/2024
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
21
Standard lectures hours: 
525
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Apprenticeship (525 hours)
Requirements: 

To access the Internship, students must participate in laboratories and in-depth professional activities with mandatory attendance since these supplementary activities will allow them to acquire specific skills and competences in a protected and simulated situation, preparing themselves for the clinical situations they will experience in the field. In addition, the student must acquire theoretical and practical knowledge in the characterizing disciplines provided (characterizing anatomy and the safety of the patient and operator in diagnostic imaging).

Final Examination: 
Orale

The exam will focus on the contents of the professionalizing internship carried out in the various operational areas mentioned above. This test involves the presentation and discussion of Project Work at the student's choice on one of the topics included in the internship objectives and in an oral interview, in order to properly evaluate the student's preparation for the knowledge acquired, the autonomy of judgment regarding the topics covered, as well as the learning ability. The score of the exam will derive from the average of the marks obtained by the result of the evaluation given by the interns for each professional sector and by the judgment of the Project Work by the entire exam commission, constituted in addition to the Director of Professional Activities and by an internship assistant, taking into account all the skills and objectives required by the training course. The maximum expected score is 30/30 and Honors.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The professional internship or Professionalising Training Activity (AFP) represents the fundamental training method for the development of specific skills, reasoning and critical thinking in the professional context of reference. The traineeship represents a compulsory training activity and aims to lead the student to acquire the objectives identified by the Degree Course Council on the basis of the professional profile of the Medical Technician of Medical Radiology (TSRM) (DM 746/94).

For this purpose, the Student must attend the facilities provided by the training path and in the periods defined by the Course Council for a total number of CFU equal to 21, equal to 525 AFP hours. The student always acts under the direction and control of the Director of Professional Activities who is often vicarious in the lack of Tutors, is followed by didactic and professional support figures (Internship Assistants).

At the end of the internship, the student will be able to (from general to particular):

Describe the workflow in radiological services; specify critical issues and solutions in the relationship with users and team work; Collaborate with all the professional figures involved during the team exams; Identify the criminal and civilly relevant professional responsibilities and implications for social security; apply the Code of Conduct of the Medical Technician of Medical Radiology; argue the psychological mechanisms underlying both individual and social behavior; describe the interaction between radiation and matter; apply the principles of radiation protection; correctly communicate information to subjects undergoing diagnostic imaging or radiotreatment investigations on the risks associated with the use of radiation and on practices aimed at preventing unnecessary exposure to radiation; describe the most frequently encountered infectious diseases; apply the basics of hygiene declined in diagnostic imaging as well as explain the methods of infection control and the aseptic and non-aseptic techniques; illustrate the physical principles underlying the operation of the equipment that involves the use of ionizing radiation, thermal, ultrasonic energies and knowledge of the technological components of analog and digital equipment.
Carry out the technical execution of radiographic investigations relating to the main acquisition protocols of osteo-articular, thoracic, abdominal, dental radiology (orthopantomography techniques) as well as computerized bone mineralometry (MOC); the setting of the acquisition and optimization parameters of the delivered dose; the application of dose reduction strategies; recognition of artifacts and reduction of their effects. Implement the main post processing and image processing techniques; implement the use of radiological equipment in the field of: safety management, reduction of clinical risk and basic quality controls on the equipment, use and manage digital systems for the treatment, transmission and storage of imaging (RIS- PACS).
Welcoming the traumatized patient in emergency / urgent conditions in Radiology, managing the general elements of informed consent; interaction with the sick person; the technical-anamnestic information useful to the specialist doctor; the application of immobilization and restraint techniques. Carry out radiographic investigations relating to the main breast imaging acquisition protocols, applying the main breast imaging acquisition protocols in radiographic investigations. Explain / describe the preparation and information of patients with reference to the investigation protocols in the orthopedic operating room, as well as knowledge of the main complementary radiological activities.

The internship training project for the first year will offer the student the opportunity to experiment concretely with the technique of radiological projections, the basic techniques of radiology with contrast media, awareness of the multidisciplinary complexity of the diagnostic and therapeutic process, the possibility of identify the patient's needs by responding with adequate technical and relationship skills.
The practical internship program provides for a calendar rotation in all sectors of radiology, in particular in basic, traumatological and emergency, senological radiodiagnostic services.
In particular, the following topics will be studied:
- define the elements of complexity related to the relationship between the medical technician of medical radiology and the user;
- identify and understand the critical elements in the therapeutic diagnostic process related to the protection of privacy;
- identify the main individual protection devices from ionizing radiation, describing their correct use;
- know how to collaborate with all the professional figures involved during the team exams.

Convenzionale

Professional workshops will be carried out to facilitate the student in entering the shooting-cynus path, also through theoretical-practical tests in progress (planned by the Director of Professional Activities, through an adequately trained teaching staff), aimed at verifying the skills of professionalizing and understanding learning, problem-solving and communication skills.

The teacher receives the students at his office in via Ottorino Rossi Varese, by appointment requested by writing to the teacher's e-mail address: roberto.dibella@uninsubria.it

Professors

DI BELLA ROBERTO