Imaging Assistant

Description:

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as a liaison with radiology technologists and radiologists.
• Answers scanning protocol questions from radiology technologists in an appropriate and timely manner, referring questions to radiologists as needed.
• Requests additional images, reconstructions, etc. from radiology technologists as directed by radiologists.
• Clarifies orders from referring physicians as needed.
• Calls referring physicians to facilitate reporting results as appropriate.
• Helps manage the turn-around times for radiology examinations so that the reads are performed in accordance with expectations.
• Helps in maintaining quality assurance of radiology studies.
• Helps serve as a liaison for technical support between radiologists and the IT section at Washington University.
• Populates imaging worklists for conferences.
• Coordinates reading room worklists for studies performed outside of the medical campus to be read on the medical campus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified radiology technologist or bachelor's degree related to health science.
• Customer-first attitude
• Innovative and enthusiastic about patient care