2009 Site Visits at Saint Vincent Health Care and (Deaconess) Billings Clinic

Site visit procedure:  You can schedule a site visit at one of the two Billings hospitals or a hospital in your area.  Site visits normally last four hours and are usually scheduled in the mornings when there are more examinations to observe.  You will be "job shadowing" a radiologic technologist.  As these visits require considerable time and effort of the hospital staff, schedule a site visit with only one of the two Billings hospitals or another hospital in your area.

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 include the form 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 8, 2009. Student breaks are a good time for site visits.

Saint Vincent Health Care

     To schedule a site visit at St. Vincent Healthcare, please 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 8, 2009.

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 cannot 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.