From: "Gary Minch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As one of the "unusual lot" and as a long time member of th AIR, presenter at a radiographer conference (X2 papers at the International conf in Sydney), contributor to "The Radiographer", long term lurker (and sometime contributor to AIRNEWS discussions) and someone who has spent three years in a past life studying the upgrading of Radiographer education I would like to thank those Radiographers (et al) who acknowledge your Nuc Med colleagues. We have many things in common. Although I know the histories of our two groups I really don't understand why we do not collaborate more on professional issues. Just one comment for the road (as per the last two times the name issue was discussed at huge length in this forum). Why incorporate the word "Medical" in the name? Do we need the "medical" term to legitimate our role? Doesn't it just help label us as being subordinate to "Medicine"? e.g. the name change from "Paramedical" to "Health Sciences" which occurred at Cumberland College (Sydney Uni FHS)
Gary Gary Minch Southern Nuclear Imaging [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nuclearimaging.com.au PS Good to hear Tony has not changed his opinion since Dec 1999 (one of the previous times the issue was debated) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Dempsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <undisclosed-recipients:> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: [AIRNEWS] definition > From: Shane Dempsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dear All > > Rather than just the small title maybe we should be looking at the big title. > > A few years back looked we (uni of newcastle DR, RT, NM staff) looked at the title > of our Discipline and made a name change to Medical Radiation Science (from > Technology). This title then become our degree with 3 specialities (RT, DR, NM). > The title was inclusive and allowed for subsets of MRS to exist (RT, NM, DR, Sono, > CT, etc ). It has worked really well for us at uni in elevating our status. The Science > bit really suggested something that the Technology term did not and has worked and > all on and off campus know the name. > > It was suggested to the AIR quite a few years ago (by a committee formed to make > recommendations on just this issue) that the name of the professional journal > change its title to better reflect the membership who could potentially write for it. I > believe that the title of the journal should change from The Radiographer to > something like The Journal of Medical Radiation Science. The previous term is not > inclusive or suggests inclusiveness. The latter suggests things the former does not > and will embrace more professional groups (and more journal articles). But once > again the council of the AIR (at the time) let that one go through to the keeper > (sound familiar). > > The biggie then is the name of the AIR. The Australian Institute of Medical Radiation > Science. Sounds very inclusive (even for NMs and Sonos and CT specialists etc > etc). > > shane +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= This message is being broadcast by AIRNEWS, the Australian Institute of Radiography list Server Send messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For assistance send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commands should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions expressed on this list are not necessarily those of the moderator, his assistants or those of the A.I.R.
