Curriculum Components

Students studying for the Associate Degree in Medical Radiology  must successfully complete 78 credit hours distributed as follows:

Course Description

1.    English – Expression and write skills:

This course is designed to prepare the student for English writing and it will focus on reading and writing as integrally related skills. Students will study and practice reading comprehension, the writing process, and critical thinking. Students will create clear and correct sentences as they develop the skills necessary to write a variety of focused, developed, organized paragraphs and/or short essays. Students will be responsible for writing multiple full-process paragraphs/essays. The course may include a departmental proficiency test or portfolio assessment.

2.    Islamic Culture:

Sources of Islamic Legislation - Characteristics of Islamic Legislation - Islamic Systems - Family System - Judicial System - System of Government - Economic System - Characteristics of Islamic Economic Legislation -  Islamic Education - Objectives of Islamic Education and Its Characteristics - Religious Activity - General Educational Principles Islamic - the provisions of Tajweed - steps to teach branches of Islamic education.

3.    Human Civilization:

The course aims to introduce the student to the concept of civilization and its importance, ancient civilizations, modern Islamic and European civilization, and to know the factors of its achievements and the achievements made by these civilizations in all fields socio-economic and scientific renaissance.

4.    Biostatistics:

The course examines the role of statistics in the field of medicine and the common statistical terminology used in the use of types of variables (data types). In addition, identify the SPSS types of errors and the presentation and description of statistical data and types of statistical charts. It also examines the possibilities and types of common distributions common. Centralization and variance measurements, natural distribution and other types of continuous distributions, and examines statistical data, estimation and hypothesis testing. Coincidence, bias, confusing factors, and Fisher & Chi-squared testing. It also deals with the types of basic health indicators used in medical statistics, the comparison of rates, and the introduction to biotopical studies. In addition, the design of health research and the study of future congestion and study of congestive retrovirus and case study and cross-sectional and cross-sectional study. Moreover, the ethics of medical research and experimental studies.

5.    General Chemistry:

The objective of the general chemistry laboratory course is to become proficient in techniques used by practicing chemist, to carry out experiments safely and carefully in the laboratory, to obtain data accurately and to manipulate the data correctly. This course also complements and consolidates the theoretical knowledge acquired in the general chemistry lecture course.  To provide students with basic skills and laboratory safety rules by which they can be qualified for employment or further study.  To familiarize the student with handling the chemical substances, balances and equipment.

6.    Biology (Cytology):

Students will understand the structures and purposes of basic components of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, especially macromolecules, membrane, how these cellular components are used to generate and utilize energy in cells, how different substances transport through the cell membrane including passive and active transport, the cell cycle and its regulation, the biosynthesis of protein from gene, cell communications and types of membrane receptors.

7.    Computer skills:

This course aims to discuss the basic information related to the use of computers in education and the use of educational computer capabilities in the field of education, dealing with basic programs in MS Office software, dealing with digital images and modifying them using computer applications.

8.    English – Conversation Skills:

The course content includes conversations, debates, and presentations on a wide range of concrete, abstract, and specialized topics. It is designed to enhance the speaking and listening skills of non-native English speakers. Emphasis is on pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation patterns of American English. Oral communication, listening comprehension, and vocabulary development are stressed. Students build their skills through instruction and intensive practice

9.    Turkish language for non-specialists:

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the Turkish language, starting with how to read and pronounce Turkish characters and grammatical and grammatical rules related to this language, and then to listen to and understand the simple Turkish passages and the ability to read, understand and comprehend simple texts related to daily work. From forming a comprehensive idea about it.

10.    Self-Management and Medical Psychology: 

In this course, students study how learners benefit by acquiring skills in their public and private lives, the different characteristics that make them receptive and ready to learn from the rest of the advanced age, improving the psychological and social life of students and developing the learner's personal characteristics, such as communication and cooperation with others.

11.    Medical Ethics and Laws:

The course aims at providing students with the necessary knowledge and attitudes to provide quality in nursing care, ethical principles and use of appropriate ethics in decision-making to solve problems in an ethical manner.

12.    Medical terminology

13.    First aids:

This course provides an opportunity to study the emergency situations that can be exposed to at home, work or other public places and methods of disposal during emergency situations in order to provide first aid based on the correct scientific basis, and how to provide first aid in cases of bleeding - fractures - wounds - Choking - Fainting - Burns - Emergency deliveries ... etc.

14.    Radiological medical devices and maintenance:

This course aims to identify the devices that exist in the radiology laboratories, their types and specialties, how to use and deal with them, the management of these laboratories, the methods of inspecting and maintaining these devices, and monitoring and controlling their quality standards.

15.    Nutrition and diets:

The course deals with the chemistry of essential substances such as vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, water, and the effect of these substances on the human body. The course also addresses the essential nutrients in normal and in different cases and shows the importance of proper nutrition in maintaining the health of the individual.

16.    Communication Skills:

Defining the concept of self, enabling the student to understand and self-knowledge, during these course students will study the fundamentals and theories of communication and the factors influencing the effectiveness of communication. And how to develop communication skills of all types and focuses on the interaction of the individual with the group and the interaction of the individual to the environment.

17.    Medical Physics:

The course aims at introducing students to the basic principles of general physics, focusing on the basic laws and the general theories and techniques usually found in the books of medical physics and biophysics, helping the student to understand the laws and theories with practical applications and to show their interconnection

18.    Radiation Prevention 1:

The course develops an awareness of the potential hazards in radiology departments and its immediate surroundings. It ensure that the student takes reasonable preventive remedial measures, and that he knows the action he should take when an accident occurs, having due regard to the result of this action on the normal functioning of the department. It provides students with the basic theory of hazards of radioactivity and precaution taken to minimize the risk. It provides students with radiation measurement how to deal with radiation accident and emergencies in nuclear medicine department. This course provides the student with an overview of the principles of the interaction of radiation with living systems, and radiation effects on molecules, cells, tissues and the body as a whole. Factors affecting biological response including acute and chronic effects of radiation. The content also provides an overview of the principles of radiation protection, including the responsibilities of the radiological technologist for patients, personnel and the public.

19.    Fundamentals of Nursing:

This course aims to introduce students to basic information about the nursing profession and the role of nurses in this field. It also shows him the concept of nursing as an art and science using nursing theories and biological and social sciences to present and meet the basic needs of individuals as well as to identify factors that require nursing intervention at the level of health and disease.

20.    Radiation and radioisotope techniques:

This course aims to identify natural and manufactured isotopes, the production of radioisotopes, their methods of tracking, their selection, applications on their tracking methods, radioisotope measurement, applications for measurement using alpha and beta particles, and gamma-ray applications.

21.    General Anatomy:

Anatomy of the skeletal, musculature, circulatory system, digestive system, urinary and reproductive system, nervous system, anatomy of the senses and endocrine glands, study of glands, jaw and teeth

22.    Computerized and Tomography Scan:   

The course explores the basic physical and technical principles of CT scan, related clinical applications, system component image characteristics, quality control methods limitations and advantages and future development. This course is a survey of routine CT imaging procedures including head and neck, spine and musculoskeletal system. Procedure protocols include, but are not limited to, indications, contraindications, patient education and preparation, positioning, patient history and assessment, contrast media usage, scout image, selectable scan parameters, filming, archiving of the images, and evaluation of images quality.

23.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging:

These courses introduce the student to the concepts related to production of the MR image. Pulse sequences, parameters and tissue characteristics, types of magnets, gradient fields, and spectroscopy will be covered in these courses. This course provides the student with an introduction to the field of magnetic resonance. Include the basic knowledge, the fundamentals of electricity and magnetism, the physical principles, system components and accessories, signal production, tissue characteristics, pulse sequencing, and imaging parameters. MRI safety and quality control are also included.

24.    Ultrasound imaging:

This course provides students with a detailed study of Sonographic physics and instrumentation information including the principles of ultrasound and its propagation through tissues, transducers, pulse-echo imaging and instrumentation, image storage and display, Doppler, artifacts, quality assurance and bio-effects. This to enable the student to understand the application of ultrasound in medical diagnosis, The student will also be able to understand the construction, physics, characteristics, controls and operation of ultrasound equipment so as to enable the student to consistently produce high quality ultrasound images for diagnostic purposes.

25.    Radiology Techniques 1:

This course will introduce to and familiarize the student with the basic routine of radiographic positioning, shielding techniques, and related terminology. Actual radiographs are included for analysis of proper positioning and overall image quality. This course provides the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform general radiographic procedures. Includes a review of the anatomical and positioning terminology needed for applying the procedures, with emphasis on positioning of the upper and lower extremities, chest and bony thorax, abdomen and pelvis, vertebral column, and skull. The Laboratory portion of this course enables students to performing procedures

26.    Radiology Techniques 2:

This course provides the student with knowledge and skills of contrast procedures, including the following systems: gastrointestinal tract, biliary, urinary, lymphatic, and reproductive and salivary glands. Each procedure include, but are not limited to, indications, contraindications, patient education and preparation, positioning, patient history and assessment, contrast media usage, technical parameters, radiation protection and evaluation of images quality. In addition, pediatrics and geriatrics imaging techniques will be covered and discussed.

27.    Special radiological examinations 1: 

This course studies special treatments, such as high-energy X-ray tumors and electrons from linear accelerators.

28.    Special radiological examinations 2:

The aim of this course is to study the treatment of neutron therapy by neutron-irradiated families and the treatment of ionizing radiation tumors through a guided radiation beam, radiotherapy treatment, measurement and calculation of dose and treatment plan.

29.    X ray:

The course aims to study the basics of the principles of X-ray production, image formation, x-ray imaging, radiation measurement and prevention.

30.    Radiology Anatomy:

The course is declaimed to extend student's knowledge of anatomy in those areas relevant to the practice of diagnostic radiography. Students would be taught to locate the structures of the body by their surface markings, introduction to imaging modalities. This course is the study of human anatomy with an emphasis on the localization and identification of anatomical structures and functions on radiographic images.

31.    Basics of Medicine and Surgery:

The course focuses on the principles of medicine and surgery, as well as the following topics: pain relief, Thoracentesis puncture, closed chest under water, puncture and infarction of pericardial, chest trauma, tracheotomy, head trauma, bandages, injection methods, central venous catheterization, Story - and checking devices). The study also includes nutrition and surgical patients (assessment of nutritional status - intravenous feeding - feeding through the tube), preparation of the patient for surgical operation, transfusion, bleeding and venous fluids, wounds and stitches, sterilization and disinfection, Treatment, and trauma.

32.    Emergency medicine and wars:

The course includes an introduction to emergency medicine, primary and secondary assessment, and transportation to the hospital, abdominal trauma, genital tract trauma, chest trauma, spinal trauma, facial trauma, and jaw and head trauma. Burns, stings, bites, electric injuries, heat, cold and drowning injuries, drug poisoning, and shock.

33.    Principles of Endoscopic surgery

This course aims to introduce students to laparoscopic surgery, identify how it works, its areas of use, benefits, and ways of entering the body. In addition to identifying the skills that must be available in the person to be able to work in this field and the equipment that must be provided to work with it.

34.    Modern techniques in imaging and disease detection:

The course examines the latest equipment and medical imaging techniques offered by medical equipment companies in the fields of nuclear medicine PET-CT, detection and treatment of heart diseases and cancer tumors, as well as study electromagnetic radiation and its applications and health effects and prevention.

35.    Radiation Protection 2:

Radiation protection guides such as ICRP, NCRP etc. Radiation safety criteria, Allowable Limit on Intake (ALI), Derived Air Concentration (DAC), Maximum Permissible Concentration (MPC). Health Physics instruments, diagnostic and therapeutic x-ray shielding, basic principles for external and internal radiation protection and radioactive waste management.

36.    Anatomy of Pathology:

This course is designed to dissect the body's organs such as the female reproductive system, the breast, the male reproductive system and the urinary system. It also studies the support device, movement, digestive system, circulatory system, phlegm, nervous system, endocrine, skin and eye.

37.    Pathology:

This course explains all the known names in pathology starting with the types of pathogens, symptoms and signs of disease, and how diseases occur, then study this at the level of the cell and its interaction due to different effects, and thus the occurrence of inflammation, tumors and all the pathological consequences, Cell healing or death.