are differences among the specific requirements at various schools of dental hygienists, it is suggested that the catalog of the accredited school concerned be consulted. The Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association includes the following representative courses in the curriculum for dental hygienists: Basic Requirements, Bacteriology 1, 11, 5, and 160; Chemistry 1, 2, 3; Family Living 6; Physiology 1 and 11; Psychology 1; Sociology 1; Speech 12. OPTOMETRY, CHIROPODY, AND OTHER SPECIALIZED FIELDS A student wishing to study optometry, osteopathy, chiropody, or other specialized fields may take general education bourses at Weber State College as a background for his work. It is advisable to consult the catalog of the school where work is to be completed as well as staff members of the Zoology Department. Department of X-Ray Technology** Professor Sheldon P. Hayes (Adviser); Russell L. Nichols, M. D.,* John F. Stucki, M. D.,* Winston A. Mitchell, M. D.,* John L. Merrill, Ph D.,* Dennis Y. Kida,* John Allen Tanner.* The Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital School of X-Ray Technology conducts an affiliated training program for X-Ray Technologists in cooperation with Weber State College. The combining effects competent and adaptable personnel in the field of X-Ray services. The curriculum is twenty-seven months in length. Students are enrolled in the program continuously from the time of initial entrance except for two weeks vacation each year. Registration is made both with the Dee School of X-Ray Technology and with Weber State College. Students are expected, to utilize time not in actual campus instruction at the Dee Hospital X-Ray laboratories furthering their clinical experiences. In addition to an intensive didactic instruction approach, the curriculum embodies a minimum of 3600 hours of clinical training as outlined by the Council on Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association. The program is designed to meet the requirements for training X-Ray Technologists in an approved school of X-Ray Technology as outlined by the Society of X-Ray Technicians of the American College of Radiology and the A.M.A. *Members of the Thomas D. Dee Hospital participating in X- Ray training program. •'^'Registration permitted with consent of adviser only. Weber State College confers an associate of science degree upon individuals successfully completing the program at the end of the second school year (Spring Quarter). However, in order to complete professional requirements individuals enrolled in the program must continue their training through the summer and autumn quarters of the ensuing year, at which time individuals may take national examinations for the X-Ray Technologist certification. Courses of Instruction 1. Radiological Office Procedures—Medical ethics and records of entering patients, work schedules, personnel supervision, and medical terminology. A (1). Staff 3. Dark Room Techniques—Developing and processing X-Ray films. One lecture and one three-hour laboratory. A (2). Staff 5. Applied Technological Theory— X-Ray theory correlate with practical application. Two lectures and one two-hour laboratory. W (3). Staff 6. Radiological Positioning—Terminology, body planes and patient placement of the upper extremities. Three two- hour laboratory periods. W (3). Staff 7. Radiological Positioning—■Continuation of X-Ray Technology 6. Emphasis on trunk. Three two-hour lecture-laboratory periods. S (3). Staff 8. Radiological Positioning—Continuation of X-Ray Technology 6. Emphasis on lower extremities. Three two-hour lecture-laboratory periods. W (3). Staff 9. Radiological Positioning—Emphasis placed upon respiratory system. Three two-hour lecture-laboratory periods. Su (3). Staff 10. Radiological Positioning—Continuation of X-Ray Technology. Emphasis placed upon digestive system. Three two- hour lecture-laboratory periods. Su (3) Staff 11. Radiological Positioning—Situating patients for X- Rays of the excretory and reproductive systems. Three two- hour lecture-laboratory periods. Su (3). Staff 12. Radiological Positioning—Projection planes for cranial radiography. Four two-hour lecture-laboratory periods. A (4). Staff 13. Radiological Positioning—Special projection procedures. Four two-hour lecture-laboratory periods. S (4). Staff 188 189