VGCC Radiography program head Angela Thomas (right) practices positioning techniques with students in her program’s lab on the college’s South Campus, which will hold an open house and information session on March 19. (VGCC Photo)
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. The program will hold an Open House there on Monday, March 19, from Noon until 5 p.m. As part of the open house, an information session for prospective Radiography students will start at 2 p.m. 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 examine the state-of-the-art x-ray equipment that students use in the energized lab at South Campus.
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 South Campus, 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).
For more information, contact Radiography program head Angela Thomas at (252) 738-3517.