CAMRT Exam....help!
Jun 24th 2010, 11:07 am
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Re: CAMRT Exam....help!
I'm going to see what the labor market is like really. The great thing about the CAMRT is that it is accepted in a bunch of provinces. Ideally, I would like British Columbia, but not necessarily Vancouver.
Jun 24th 2010, 11:13 am
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Re: CAMRT Exam....help!
How did you find 6 hours exam then?
I sat the exam in Halifax in May, and I can say it was rather hard. That maybe because I've not sat an exam in 3 years or thereabouts. It touched on a wide range of topics, including 'techniques' (exposure factors), patient confidentiality, CT anatomy etc.
Radiation Techs in Canada don't 'red dot', so there were no questions about that. However I do remember a chest x-ray with an obvious NG tube in the right lung - and the question centred around what you'd do next.
The other part fledermaus seems to have missed is that (at least from the exam) skull x-rays are routine too. Having said that, I also visited a hospital during the same trip and had a chat with the operations manager who implied that skull x-rays aren't at all routine! Perhaps that's because they'd just got their shiny new CT scanner - I don't know.
EDIT: Oops posted this from my wife's BE account not my own! Sorry any confusion.
Radiation Techs in Canada don't 'red dot', so there were no questions about that. However I do remember a chest x-ray with an obvious NG tube in the right lung - and the question centred around what you'd do next.
The other part fledermaus seems to have missed is that (at least from the exam) skull x-rays are routine too. Having said that, I also visited a hospital during the same trip and had a chat with the operations manager who implied that skull x-rays aren't at all routine! Perhaps that's because they'd just got their shiny new CT scanner - I don't know.
EDIT: Oops posted this from my wife's BE account not my own! Sorry any confusion.
Jun 24th 2010, 11:17 am
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Re: CAMRT Exam....help!
CAMRT is nationwide. Some provinces such as Ontario require you to be registered with CMRTO which is the licensing body, the equivalent to the HPC.
Jun 25th 2010, 10:17 am
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Re: CAMRT Exam....help!
Just a quick update - I passed first time. *phew* that's a weight off my mind. Another step closer to Canada - YAY!
Good luck to everybody else that's going for it!
Good luck to everybody else that's going for it!
Jun 25th 2010, 10:35 am
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Congrats. Welcome to the frustrating world of x-ray teching. I've just done 22 views, 17 for one patient and 5 for another.......
Jun 26th 2010, 6:40 pm
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