CollaborationRA

By CollaborationRA

Working together to recognize the Radiology Technologist and Radiologist Assistant profession.

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The podcast currently has 91 episodes available.

CollaborationRA episodes:

June 28, 2022 Finding Opportunity
This episode Will Bryan, RA, joins us to share how he started out in radiology and walks us through his career path that later developed into the Radiologist Assistant. Will offers great advise to students and those of us who are currently registered technologist who are looking to advance our careers.
Get a first hand look at how Will's skillset as an RA enhances the radiology department by working collaboratively with technologist, radiologist, residents, and fellows. He gives a strong finish has he speaks on advocacy and how we can continue on the path to support MARCA.
Will it was awesome getting to meet and visit with you. It was truly an honor to learn more about you and your role as an RA.
Don't forget to register: ARPE conference at https://www.rpeacademy.org and SRPE conference at https://www.srpeweb.org/annual-conference.html
REMEMBER: Like, share, comment, and to #supportMARCA
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June 21, 2022 Coming Together
Today we sit down with Sean Wiley, RA, as he leads us through what led him into his passionate career as a Radiology Extender. You can feel his deep connection with his mother as he shared her love of the radiology field with him. It's exciting to listen to him discusses how his radiologist have helped mold his career and supported him over the past 20 years.
Sean is always looking for exciting opportunities and ways to help others in our radiology profession grow and excel in all that we do. Sean thank you for always being an advocate and seeing the positive not only in the RA profession but in every professional who works within our radiology departments. Thank you for all that you do!
Don't forget to attend the ARPE and/or SRPE conferences in 2022 and 2023. We look forward to seeing you all there!
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26min
June 14, 2022 Aiming for Success
David Hardwick (RA), President for the SRPE, sits down and joins hosts Marcelene Forbus (RA) and Reece Burgoon (RA) and shares how he got his start in Radiology, who inspired him throughout his career and education, and the importance of educating about what our profession is doing.
Together we go over MARCA and how to better help aim it towards success through pulling together and really spending time educating those who are not really aware of the realities of how the RA practices. David it was such an honor to share this time with you and hearing your past, present, and where you are aiming our profession for the future. We are wishing you and everyone with the ARRT, ASRT, and SRPE great success and offer any support you might need. Thank you for coming on and taking the time to sit with us and our listeners.
REMEMBER: Like, share, comment...and reach out to us at [email protected]. Join the discussion!

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June 09, 2022 Communication is Key
Cassidy Prater RT (R) sits down with hosts Marcelene Forbus (RT/RPA) and Reece Burgoon (RT/RRA) to talk about her experiences as a student, overcoming fears as a student, growing in her role, and working with the Radiologist Assistant (RA).
Cassidy does a good job of describing all our fears as students, speaking to and interacting with our patient's during our first interactions. She shares how overcoming your fears and realizing you know more than you think helps you prepare for your career once you graduate.
Cassidy also describes the improved communication and patient care that the RA profession provides to the radiology departments. She describes her experience working with RA's and the added value that the profession brings and the support it needs to continue to thrive.
Cassidy it was an honor to site with you and hear your perspective on the different radiology professionals and to get to hear your goals. We can't wait to sit and visit with you again in the future!
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May 31, 2022 RAD Family
Jennifer Smith, RA, sits down with the hosts from CollaborationRA and talks about her start in radiology, how she became an RA, and what she hopes the podcast will bring to the radiology field.
We talk about learning difficulties during the educational process, how we survived our education, how radiology truly is family, and finally Jenn wraps it up with a magnificent job explaining the what "bridging the gap" means. Jenn thank you so much for the time you spent with us, it was such an honor to share space with you and do this episode.
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May 27, 2022 Introducing Reece
Listen in to the quick intro of fellow host Reece Burgoon as he shares who he is, how he got his start in radiology, and what he hopes this podcast will bring to it's listeners! Thank you Reece for collaborating together to help get this podcast started and taking the time to visit with all our guests!
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May 24, 2022 A Boon To Radiology (Radiologist)
CollaborationRA had the pleasure of sitting down with Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Moger. Together we go over his history as a Radiologist, his views on patient care, the Radiology Technologist (RT) profession, working along side various midlevel's, and discussing the Radiologist Assistant (RA) in our radiology departments.
Dr. Moger, thank you for being the first Radiologist to represent the RT and RA profession through our podcast, we are hopeful it will open dialogue and help radiologist understand our roles in collaboration with the radiologist-led teams we work along side.
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May 17, 2022 Just Getting Started
Marcelene and Reece sit down with RA student Ryan Thompson. On this episode we will talk about the RT background leading us into our roles as RA's, being an RA student, COVID, and how we hope to see the progression of the profession.
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May 10, 2022 Let's Talk MARCA
Todays podcast goes over a 1 minute history of MARCA legislation that leads into why the RA community is seeking the support of our fellow RT's. During this short episode we will talk about the RA profession, what it takes to apply to the RA program, and how our role needs CMS recognition to continue the pathway between RT to RA.
At the end of the episode you will hear about who can support MARCA (which is anybody) and how to help us through some easy steps, which you can also do at https://cqrcengage.com/asrt/marca
Thank you for listening in...REMEMBER, like, share, and subscribe
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25min
May 03, 2022Thick Of It...
Host Marcelene Forbus and Terry Licciardi sit down to discuss the history of the RPA and RRA, hit the hard topics surrounding the (RA) profession and end the conversation with explaining the importance of pulling the Radiology Technologist community together.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING IN! SHARE IN THE PASSION OF OUR PROFESSION AND HELP TO UNITE AND SUPPORT THE RT AND RA BY SUPPORTING MARCA TODAY! Link for MARACA support can be found at www.collaborationra.com and will redirect you to the ASRT website for submission!
Todays highlight topics include:
The forming of the Radiology Practitioner Assistant profession (RPA) and the Registered Radiologist Assistant (RRA) and how we all achieved success by coming together under the common name Radiologist Assistant (RA).

Lack of awareness surrounding the RA and discussing the recent ACR survey.

Is "History Repeating Itself"...a discussion of where we are and how the RA has never progressed towards autonomy.

The myths and facts surrounding dictation and the RA education

Article "Are Radiologist Assistants the Quintessential Solution for Modern Radiology Departments" By LeAnn M. Shannon and Omer A. Swan published Sept 1, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.2020190199 RSNA RadioGraphics.

In depth discussion of recent pod cast "Patients At Risk" 2 part series called "Who will be reading your next x-ray? The replacement of Radiologist by Radiologist Assistants." With guest host Dr. Phil Shaffer and Dr. Sharon D'Souza and host Dr. Rebekah Bernard.

The article mentioned in the podcast "Radiology Extenders Impact on Throughput and Accuracy on Chest Radiographs" in 2020 which has since been removed.

Raising awareness that as RT's we need to stand stronger with our profession and really engage in our professional societies.
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How many episodes does CollaborationRA have?

The podcast currently has 91 episodes available.

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