VGCC South Campus to hold open house for Radiography program

Area residents interested in a popular health care career field are invited to Vance-Granville Community College’s South Campus, where they will learn about the college’s Radiography program. An Open House for the program will be held on Tuesday, March 23 from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. An information session for prospective students will be held from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. on the same day.

VGCC’s South Campus is located on N. C. 56 between Creedmoor and Butner.

Current Radiography students and faculty members will share information and answer questions. Visitors will be able to meet the student technologists, examine the state-of-the-art x-ray equipment that students use, and learn about the history and the future of the radiography field. Displays and radiographs will help educate the community about this important profession.

Vance-Granville’s two-year 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, including, but not limited to, Maria Parham Medical Center, Granville Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital and Franklin Regional Medical Center. Radiography encompasses many specialty areas, including nuclear medicine, radiation therapy, ultrasound, mammography, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In collaboration with Edgecombe Community College, VGCC offers a CT/MRI program for graduates of Radiography programs at its Franklin County Campus.

For more information, contact Radiography program head Angela Thomas at (252) 738-3517.