Join us as we get to sit with UT Heath in San Antonio’s program Director, Laura P. Vasquez (Ph.D, MS, RVT, RT, MR, MRSO), as she shares about the program they are offering.  This is the first ver entry into the program at a master’s level that offers students the education, training, and opportunity to become multimodality certifications.

We hit on several topics during this discussion with the order of the content below:

• The demand for education, market trends, and what multimodality trained technologist have to offer our industry.
•  Changes in education that has been seen over the years, leading up to programs of higher education and training.
•  The definition of professionalism, COVID trends, advocacy and the trends that are happening in medical imaging (and all of medicine).
•  UT Health San Antonio’s masters level program, what it offers to it’s students, what entering the program looks like, and what students can expect to achieve.
• Investing in our own, heightening awareness of levels of education and the importance of the education medical imaging professionals have in advocacy.
•  The rigor of programs at UT Health in San Antonio and the start of the first cohort.
• Face to face vs hybrid programs and investing resources in earlier education with STEM programs to drive more students into the medical imaging pathway.
• Current workforce issues and looking to fill the void with traveling technologist; missing the opportunity to build and maintain a team.
• What students are looking at as they go through these programs and working in the industry.
• Educating on the Radiologist Assistant role and how it plays a key part in where our industry if currently at.
•  Understanding the importance of advocating for new industry growth and investing in those who are trailblazing the process.
•  Closing the program up and sharing on the future hope of the students currently enrolled in this masters level program.

It was such an honor to have Dr. Vasquez on with us and share on the importance of recognizing professionals and investing in the future of the profession.  Our thoughts and views align as we each look at how we want to see the industry grow and maintain recognition.