SDCA Journal of Radiologic Technology

Abstract

In online classes, it will be rather difficult to teach radiographic positioning and radiologic procedures through discussions, video, and/or images. Moreover, it is fair enough to be worried whether the students have truly learned the said course. With that, the aim of this study is to determine the correlation of the grades of the fourth-year students enrolled in the radiologic positioning and radiographic procedure courses from the second semester of the academic year 2020–2021. This result was compared to their actual evaluation during a face-to-face internship in the Radiology department at St. Dominic Medical Center Inc., Bacoor, Cavite, Philippines. The researcher utilized a quantitative non-experimental correlational design and a purposive sampling that included the entire position. Therefore, it accumulated a total of 17 respondents. Based on the findings, a Pearson-r value of 0.6 shows a strong correlation between the variables. With a computed p-value of 0.01 that is lower than the 0.05 significance level, results suggest that there is a positive correlation between the two variables. Therefore, the higher the grades in the radiographic positioning and radiologic procedures course, the better the performance during face-to-face internships.

Keywords: Radiologic technology; Face-to-face internship; Radiographic positioning; Radiologic procedures; Grades.