51 Image Critiques

The purpose of conducting image critiques is to access the student’s ability to take classroom knowledge, along with lab practice, and apply it in a supervised setting. Students will work one-on-one with his/her Clinical Preceptor reviewing an image that they have performed for a competency. The image may be the one they actual did or it may come from an image bank. The student will critique the image for:

• Positioning
• Technique
• Artifacts
• Distortion
• Centering
• Post processing
• Key anatomical structures

Students will be able to use this one-on-one time with his/her preceptor to ask questions and gain a deeper knowledge of image evaluation. Clinical Preceptors may schedule a specific day or days to do your critiques or they might make use of slow periods in the department, and conduct them as impromptu meetings. This will vary by clinic site so please check with individual CPs at the beginning of each semester to be able to better prepare for individual meetings.  An average score for the critiques is calculated and that total is worth 15% of the final clinic course grade.  The scoring for this activity has a special grade scale that can be found on the second page of the final grade form.

This document can be viewed in Evalue under:

• Evaluations
• Print Blank Evaluation Forms,
• Course R151, R171, R271, or R272
• Evaluation Type: Image Critiques