Radiologic Technology Application Process

Application deadline for admission into the clinical part of Radiologic Technology for fall semester 2009 is May 15, 2009. 

This web site is designed for students that are in the process of applying to the MSU-Billings College of Technology Radiologic Technology program. This site includes a copy of the program application, program curriculum, application time line and notices of concern to those applying to the program.  These pages will be updated or pages added to this site as they are finalized.   Your program prerequisite courses must be completed before you can make an application to the clinical part of the program for fall 2009. To make application to this program you must also be registered as a student with MSU-Billings College of Technology. You may apply for admission on line or call the COT at (406) 247-3000. This program is a fall start program which means the clinical part of the program will start at the beginning of the fall semester, 2009 and those students will graduate spring semester, 2011. If you have any questions concerning the program prerequisite courses or registration, contact Kirtlye Schuman at (406) 247-3020 or kschuman@msubillings.edu.

The MSU-Billings College of Technology, Radiologic Technology program is a competitive program and the following selection process will be used to select those students who will continue into the clinical courses in Radiologic Technology starting September 9, 2009. Admission into this program involves two phases.  Phase One is a point system that will be used to select the 24 applicants that will progress to Phase Two of the selection process.  Details of the point system are included in the Radiologic Technology Application on this web site. Phase Two involves a personal interview with the Radiologic Technology Selection Committee. The exact days of the interviews will be posted on this site when confirmed.  Those students selected from Phase Two will become the new Radiologic Technology class of 2009-2011 and they will start their clinical courses in the fall semester of 2009.  The decision of the selection committee is final. 

It is very important that applicants to this program have a good understanding of the job responsibilities of a radiologic technologist.  You need to know what a radiologic technologist “does” on the job.  In order to assure this understanding, as part of the application process you are required to perform a site visit at a radiology department.  You will need to schedule a site visit at one of the Billings hospital radiology departments and spend four to eight hours "job shadowing" a radiologic technologist.  If you do not live in Billings, you may conduct your site visit at a radiology department at a local hospital.  I recommend you do your site visit at a larger hospital as you will have a more complete view of the radiology profession.  If you are re-applying to the program you should plan to make another site visit or discuss this issue with me.  A schedule for the site visits will be posted on this web site as soon as they are available.  It is also very important that you understand what is involved in providing patient care.  Patient care and how you treat your patient are just as important as the quality of the x-ray images you produce.  It is important that you have experience in patient care. This patient care experience can include work in a nursing home, working with patients in a hospital or clinical setting or a significant amount of volunteer work (approximately 80 hours). This experience should involve direct contact with patients.  Not everyone is suited for work with ill patients and you need to have some idea if this is really something you want to do. 

Students applying to this program must complete a career assessment for student career exploration and planning.  It is the student’s responsibility to complete the career assessment by picking up the assignment and information packet from the Student Services Office (Room A17) at the MSU-Billings College of Technology.  Dates when those packets will be made available will be posted on this web site.  After completing the assessment, you must schedule a follow-up appointment with the COT Career Services (phone 247-3000) to discuss the results of your assessment.  If you do not live in Billings you can complete a career assessment at another educational institution and complete the discussion of your results with your advisor at that institution.  If you have questions about the career assessment tests you can contact Kirtlye Schuman or Mick Ender at the contact information listed below.

If you have not taken a physics class in high school or college, it is strongly recommended that you complete a 3 credit hour introductory course in physics.  For those attending MSU-Billings, I recommend PHYS 101 Earth, Air, Fire and Water.  This physics course is NOT a required pre-requisite course but the knowledge obtained from this course will be very helpful when taking the two physics courses, RAD 104 and RAD 110, which are part of the program curriculum. 

This site will contain the most complete and up to date information about the application process.  If you have any question or concerns about the application process, or the program, please contact Mick Ender or Kirtlye Schuman.

If you have decided to apply to this program, you should register with the MSU-Billings College of Technology so that we have your contact information should there be any changes in the program.  If either your permanent or current contact information changes, please contact Kirtlye Schuman at kschuman@msubillings.edu or call her at (406) 247-3020 to update your information.

Final Radiologic Technology applications can be turned in to Mick Ender, COT campus, Health Sciences Building room 200, Jeanie Ullman, Health Sciences Building, room 226 or the office staff at the College of Technology main building.  Applications may also be sent via by mail to MSU-Billings College of Technology, Radiologic Technology, 3803 Central Avenue, Billings,  Montana 59102. As mentioned above, application deadline will be in mid May, 2009. The specific date will be posted on this site in January, 2009. A PDF version of the application, that you can fill out on line and print, will be available by February or March.

Note: Contents of this site are subject to change. 

     If you have problems with this site or you notice and error, please notify the site master, me, at  mender@msubillings.edu