Mammography: Positioning, Diagnosis and Navigation

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As a mammographer you have to compassionately deal with newly diagnosed patients. Mammographers can benefit from a patient navigator’s skills to provide exceptional care.

This eight hour focuses on developing your skills, and will begin with the basics: proper positioning techniques for breast cancer detection, identifying mammography artifacts, and discussing patient’s new norm after a breast cancer diagnosis. Round out the day focusing on understanding the disease process and defining a patient navigator. Mammography: Positioning, Diagnosis, and Navigation will leave you feeling confident when performing mammography and communicating with the newly to a patient.

Course Topics

• The Art of Positioning
• Artifacts: Do You See What I See?
• Optimizing Positioning and Image Critique
• A Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Now What?
• Breast Imaging Patient Navigator
• The “Warm Fuzzy” of Mammographic Imaging