For instance, the students will have access to virtual scanners, \u201cwhich is wonderful because that way we can make mistakes without irradiating people,\u201d he said. At the end of the course, in about 27 weeks, the students will be prepared to take the exam to become certified at CT techs.<\/p>\n
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Heather Knight prepares a paitent for a CT scan at the Medical University of South Carolina on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, in Charleston.<\/p>\n
Grace Beahm Alford\/Staff<\/p>\n
All of the students have completed a two-year associates degree and are already registered radiologic technologists, Howard said. The new training, which is a paid intensive program, will launch them into the CT field faster.<\/p>\n
The new students were interested in the field, but the need for those jobs was a revelation. William Golden spent four months working in X-rays as part of his clinical training but saw how few people were working in the other imaging departments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need help,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Guercio said his wife, a nurse, was always talking about the need for more people in health care. Then he saw that hospitals and clinics are willing to pay to fill those positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so many incentive bonuses,\u201d Guercio said.<\/p>\n
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Heather Knight perfomes a CT scan on a paitent at the Medical University of South Carolina on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026, in Charleston.<\/p>\n
Grace Beahm Alford\/Staff<\/p>\n
Kyle Walters got a degree in exercise science from College of Charleston but became more interested in the imaging field after watching a YouTube video. Then training to be an X-ray tech really opened his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s when you get to actually see, hey, there’s all these different paths you can take, all these different modalities, all these different imaging departments,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s not just one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
For their part, though, it will be CT training and an intense six months immersed in it. But they are ready for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re used to hitting the ground running,\u201d Golden said.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeep the foot on the gas,\u201d Guercio added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For instance, the students will have access to virtual scanners, \u201cwhich is wonderful because that way we can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[71115,346935,364449,97,252,253,73730,83357,228846,31160,153473,172],"class_list":["post-863727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-ct-scan","tag-ct-scanner","tag-ct-technologist","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-medical-university-of-south-carolina","tag-musc","tag-musc-health","tag-siemens","tag-siemens-healthineers","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}