2021 Volume 7 Pages 71-78
Purpose. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between students’ modalities of interest in clinical practical training during radiological technologist education and their degree of learning for those modalities. Methods. The target is 2019 fourth-year students of Suzuka University of Medical Science. The same questionnaire survey was administered to participating students before and after clinical training. In the first part of the questionnaire, students ranked the modalities of radiological technologists’ duties by their level of interest. The second part of the questionnaire assessed their learning level for each modality. In this study, the technical term for each modality was presented individually, and participants’ level of understanding of these technical terms was defined as the learning level for that modality. Results. The modalities of the radiological technologists’ work in which students were most interested were general radiography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance. The interest in these modalities did not change between before and after clinical training. Students’ learning levels were particularly high in the modalities of interest. Conclusion. We investigated changes in students’ interest in modalities attributable to clinical practical training during radiological technologist education and identified the relevance of the degree of learning for those modalities. We aim to use these data to inform educational improvements.
