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Mentor Program

Massachusetts General Hospital has implemented a mentor program, whereby a technologist is recommended by his/her manager for the role as mentor. These technologists shine in their dedication and commitment to teaching, their time and patience spent with each student and for being a positive role model to both students and peers. Each Mentor provides a unique experience for the students allowing them room to grow and utilize their own critical thinking skills.

We currently have 35 mentors working both day and evening shifts at the main campus and at our three satellite Radiology areas, Waltham, Revere and Chelsea. They are employed in the Emergency Room, Operating Room, and all Outpatient and Inpatient areas.

All mentors must be in good standings and a Registered Technologist with the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT).

Jerry Jones - Success Story

Jerry came to MGH during the summer of 1998 after his freshman year at Boston High School working 25 hours per week as a technologist assistant in the Radiology Department. Some of his duties were greeting, transporting and changing patients, processing films, maintaining darkroom chemicals, and stocking exam rooms. He returned the summer after his high school sophomore year to this same position.

As a high school junior, Jerry qualified for the PROTECH program working each day after school for four hours while maintaining his grades as required by the program. The summer after his junior year he worked full time in the MGH Ambulatory Care Center for outpatients.

In the fall of 2001 he began the Medical Imaging program at Bunker Hill Community College, graduating in 2003. Mr. Jones is currently employed by MGH as an Emergency Room radiologic technologist.

Jerry was a recipient of the Partners Scholarship while attending BHCC and also received the Private Industry Council (PIC) Award, the organization sponsoring the PROTECH Program.

Tom Sagui - Mentor Program

The journey to becoming a radiologic technologist is an arduous one. It is impossible without the guidance of experienced mentors. Mentors do a large share of the instructing and incur the burden of being responsible for the actions of the students in their care.One of the challenges mentors face is determining when the student is ready to work more independently.

"The watershed moment for me, as a student, occurred in GI. I was working with a technologist, who was concerned that I would make an error and that it would reflect on her. The tech assistant, who had worked with me earlier in the week, called the technologist out of the room and urged her to let me work things out on my own. That chance to work independently, while under indirect supervision, was the boost I needed to make giant steps forward."

The challenge to the mentors is recognizing when the student is ready to move into a more independent mode and then let them do it. It is not an easy job being a mentor.










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