2008 Site Visits at Saint Vincent Health Care and (Deaconess) Billings Clinic

Site visit procedure:

You must schedule an appointment for a visit with a hospital radiology department.  You must dress appropriately for the visit.  Be sure you read the appropriate dress statements at the bottom of this page.   You must answer the questions listed on the site visit form which is located on the last page of the Radiologic Technology program application and include those answers with your submitted application.  If you have already visited a hospital radiology department within the last year, you need to have the technologist that supervised your visit sign the site visit form and turn the form in with your application. You must still answer the questions listed on the site visit form and submit those answers with your application.  Confidentiality is a major issue in any medical situation and you must be very careful not discuss the patient’s history, condition, procedures performed or the results of those procedures. 

(Deaconess) Billings Clinic

To schedule a site visit at (Deaconess) Billings Clinic, you must call Bev Reaver and schedule a date and time for your visit.  Bev can be contacted at her office, (406) 237-1392.  Site visits can be scheduled at the Billings Clinic from now through May 20, 2008 and student breaks are some of the best times for site visits.

Saint Vincent Health Care

     To schedule a site visit at St. Vincent Healthcare, please call Shayne Nobel, the St. Vincent Facility Access Coordinator at (406) 237-3390.  Shane will discuss with you St. Vincent's patient confidentiality policy.  After you have talked with Shane, you must call Mary Bargstadt, St. Vincent Clinical Instructor at (406) 237-4377 to schedule a time and date for your site visit.  Mary will schedule site visits between now and May 20, 2008 and student breaks are some of the best times for site visits.

Appropriate Dress for site visits either hospital. 

    You must dress professionally as you will observing in areas of the hospital where patient and patient families can see you.  You need to wear slacks, dress shirts and or blouse type apparel.  You can not wear jeans, perfume, T-shirts, open toed shoes, low-riding pants or low cut tops.  The hospitals do not want to see tattoos, nose ring, belly rings or cleavage.  Wear comfortable foot wear as you will be shadowing a radiologic technologist during your visit.  If you have any question about appropriate dress be sure to ask when you schedule your site visit.