VGCC South Campus holds open house for Radiography program

Area residents learned about Vance-Granville Community College’s Radiography program when they visited the college’s South Campus on March 23. An open house and an information session for prospective students were held that day on the campus, which is located on N. C. 56 between Creedmoor and Butner.

Current Radiography students and faculty members shared information and answered questions about the two-year degree program. Visitors met the student technologists, examined the state-of-the-art x-ray equipment that students use, and learned about the history and the future of the radiography field. Displays and radiographs sought to help educate the community about this important profession.

Among the comments that visitors made on surveys were “I was really impressed with the warm and welcoming attitude of the staff and students,” and “Students knew what they were teaching.” Several expressed interest in enrolling in the program, saying that radiography “seems like an exciting career.”

Vance-Granville’s Radiography curriculum, which is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, prepares graduates to be radiographers, skilled health care professionals who use radiation to produce images of the human body. In addition to classroom and lab instruction offered at the South Campus in Granville County, students gain hands-on clinical experience at area hospitals. Both in 2008 and in 2009, 100 percent of graduates of the program passed the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists national examination. For more information, contact Radiography program head Angela Thomas at (252) 738-3517.

Above: VGCC Radiography student Kenneth Medlin of Durham (right) uses a patient manikin to demonstrate equipment in the Radiography lab at the college’s South Campus for visitors at the open house. (VGCC photo)