Course Description

Ethics encompasses a variety of issues that all medical professionals, including medical imaging technologists, must ultimately tackle. When considering ethics, medical imaging professionals need to take into account their responsibilities to patients, colleagues, employers, the imaging profession, and themselves. This article will review these responsibilities with respect to medical imaging and the challenges that imaging technologists may face in approaching their work from the perspective of sound ethics.

Learning Objectives

After reading this article, the participant should be able to:

• Recognize the importance of ethical considerations in medical imaging.
• Describe the basic ethical concepts of beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for patient autonomy, and justice, and discuss how these concepts translate to the medical imaging field.
• Identify ethical responsibilities that medical imaging technologists have with respect to their patients, their colleagues, their employers, the medical imaging profession as a whole, and themselves.

In order to receive CE credit, you must first complete the activity content. When completed, go to the "CE Test" link to access the post-test.

Submit the completed answers to determine if you have passed the post-test assessment. You must obtain a score of 75% to receive the CE credit. You will have no more than 3 attempts to successfully complete the post-test.

Participants successfully completing the activity content and passing the post-test will receive 0.5 ARRT Category A credits.

Approved by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists for ARRT Category A credit.

This activity may be available in multiple formats or from different sponsors. ARRT does not allow CE activities such as Internet courses, home study programs, or directed readings to be repeated for CE credit in the same or any subsequent biennium.