Essential Functions for Students in the Radiation Therapy Department

If you major in Radiation Therapy, you will be choosing a healthcare profession where honesty and integrity are critical personal characteristics required both in your academic studies and in the practice of your profession. To ensure that your decision to pursue this career is the correct one for you, we ask that you review the Essential Functions by which you will be assessed as a Radiation Therapy major. The following Essential Functions are the non–academic requirements of the program, comprising the physical, emotional and professional requirements.

Physical requirements

• Ability to perform manual clinical procedures with dexterity.
• Ability to operate state–of–the–art instruments, including computers.
• Ability to perform delicate manipulations that require good hand–eye coordination.

Emotional requirements

• Ability to perform procedures accurately and quickly, even under stressful conditions.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and to think logically in the performance of one's duties.
• Ability to assume responsibility for one's work.

Professional requirements

• Ability to communicate in a professional, positive and tactful manner with patients, physicians, nurses, and other health–care and non–health–care employees, as well as fellow clinical personnel.
• Ability to maintain patient confidentiality and to exercise ethical judgment, integrity,
• honesty, dependability and accountability in the performance of one's responsibilities
• Ability to perform clinical procedures carefully while maintaining efficiency and organization.
• Ability to exercise critical thinking skills to solve problems.