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  • Radiography Education
  • Clinical Practice

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  • Radiographers are expanding their roles through training to adapt to evolving clinical practices.
  • Image interpretation is a key area of role extension now included in undergraduate radiography programs, with training varying across institutions.
  • This study focuses on the experiences of radiography graduates regarding image interpretation training in a low-resource setting.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the experiences of radiography graduates concerning their image interpretation training.
  • To identify challenges and successes in the educational process for image interpretation skills.
  • To understand the theory-practice gap in radiographer image interpretation within a specific institutional context.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative phenomenological research design.
  • Purposive selection of ten radiography graduates from one higher education institution.
  • Individual semi-structured interviews analyzed using Colaizzi's seven-step data analysis method.

Main Results:

  • Key themes included teaching approach, clinical education, assessment strategy, practitioner role modeling, skill utilization, and industry impact.
  • Participants reported a theory-practice gap in image interpretation.
  • Experiences highlighted a misalignment between educational preparation and clinical realities.

Conclusions:

  • Inadequacies in teaching, clinical education, and assessment strategies contributed to a misalignment in the educational process.
  • Radiographer image interpretation is a recognized and relevant area for role extension in low-resource settings.
  • Findings underscore the need for improved training and assessment to bridge the theory-practice gap.