Specialty Mammography Workshop Day 2 - Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Aug 15, 2020)

Specialty Mammography Workshop Day 2 - Stereotactic Breast Biopsy is organized by Advanced Health Education Center (AHEC) and will be held on Aug 15, 2020 at MD Anderson Breast Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

Accreditation:
This program provides 8 hours of AHRA Category A continuing education credit for radiologic technologists recognized by the ARRT and various licensure states.

Course Description:
You may attend this popular eight hour course conducted inside the stereotactic biopsy room at our affiliate hospital. You will gain hands-on equipment experience for both prone and upright procedures.

The course will be conducted at one of AHEC’s clinical affiliates. Please look for an email a week before the course with the directions and parking information. If you need to book your hotel, the course will most likely be in the Texas Medical Center area.

Course Topics:
• History of Stereotactic Biopsy
• Roles and Responsibilities: mammographer, radiologist, physicist, referring physician
• Principles of Stereotactic core biopsy
• Equipment: dedicated and add-on units
• Biopsy Devices
• Step-by-step Procedures for Prone and Upright
• Quality Control
• Accreditation
• MRI Stereotactic Biopsy

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.