Assessing the neuroanatomy knowledge and spatial ability of radiotherapy technologist undergraduates using an interactive volumetric simulation tool-the RadioLOG project.

Objective: To assess the use of a volumetric image display simulation tool (VDST) for the evaluation of applied radiological neuroanatomy knowledge and spatial understanding of radiotherapy technologist (RTT) undergraduates.

Methods: Ninety-two third-year RTT students from three French RTT schools took an examination using software that allows visualization of multiple volumetric image series. To serve as a reference, 77 first- and second-year undergraduates, as well as ten senior neuroradiologists, took the same examination.

Comment les MERM travaillant en radiothérapie perçoivent-ils leurs compétences dites "soft"?

Objectives: Research in the last decade shows growing interest for soft skills in healthcare, due to awareness of the influence of adverse events in healthcare. However, there was no specific study about non-technical skills used by therapists in the French radiation oncology departments. What are these behavioral competencies that medical radiation technologists (MRT) use in their work to deliver safe and efficient healthcare?

Method: We built a self-assessment grid of 40 non classified soft skills for the active MRT to fulfill.

Building and Exploitation of Learning Curves to Train Radiographer Students in X-Ray CT Image Postprocessing.

Introduction: This study aims to construct learning curves related to the realization of standardized postprocessing by radiographer students and to discuss their exploitation and interest.

Materials And Methods: This study was carried out in 21 French students in their 3rd year of training. Two postprocessing protocols in CT (#1 traumatic shoulder; #2 petrous bone) were repeated 15 times by each student.

Motivation of student radiographers in learning situations based on role-play simulation: A multicentric approach involving trainers and students.

Introduction: Role-play simulation is implemented in different radiography institutions. This tool develops Knowledge, Skills and Competences (KSC) in students. The aim of this study was to identify the strategies implemented by trainers in order to encourage student motivational dynamics and to find those that resonate with students.

Three consecutive generations of nephridia occur during development of Platynereis dumerilii (Annelida, Polychaeta).

Molecular data for nephridial development in polychaetes are not available yet. The scope of our work was to establish a reference system for future investigations using two markers for nephridial development: beta-tubulin as marker for cilia and alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity for secretory epithelia. The markers identified, unexpectedly, three consecutively forming generations of nephridia: (1) a transitory unciliated, but AP-positive head kidney, (2) a transitory larval nephridium, which undergoes a morphological transition from a protonephridium to a funnelled nephridium concomitant with the development of the coelomic cavity and finally, (3) the serially arranged metanephridia.