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PROFESSIONAL LICENSE - RADTRAN

Posted: Dec 03, 2010

We should really push for professional licensure for this job like RNs, Rad Techs, RTs, RD, and CNAs. Hospital and clinics require these people to be licensed… then why not us? May this will stop shipping work abroad.

That's what CMT is for - and look how that is supported

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They've tried for years to "professionalize" us with the CMT and most MTs, especially on here, will do little more than villify it.

BTW, I work in another field where I *am* licensed and it doesn't guarantee anything regarding work conditions or where the work goes. Also, ask how many RNs have been replaced with Philippino nurses. Licensure doesn't offer job protection.

CMT is "villified" because it gets us nothing, -sm - Wanted: $$$

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benefits an organization that champions offshoring, and is given at great discount to offshore MTs.

Yup but still no different than what licensing would do - mt

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I agree. Licensing off-site MTs all over the map - would be pretty useless.

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Be careful what you wish for - because

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it can turn into a nightmare.

Licensing would almost certainly end up being within state jurisdiction. Each state would come up with different requirements. Devising testing and maintaining the licensing bureacracy would require spending money states don't have right now, so the fees for the MTs needing the licenses would be astronimical. I would not be surprised at fees of $2000 to $3000 each. Seriously. States are looking for any way they can increase revenue right now. What if you work for a big national with clients in different states? You would likely have to be licensed in all those states. Who is going to pay for those licences? Not the MTSO. The MT will pay. And licenses will have to be renewed periodically. What if they have to be renewed yearly? Do you want to go through the stress and expense of renewing your license every year?

I really doubt that requiring US MTs to hve licenses would stop offshoring at all. The big nationals have too much clout and enough money to make sure that doesn't happen. There would be all kinds of loopholes and exceptions. Mandatory licensing would never benefit the individual American MT (i.e. you or me). It would more likely make it harder to get jobs, expensive to keep jobs, and actually accelerate offshoring since MTSOs would be looking for any way to avoid the hassle and expense of ensuring their US MTs had licenses.

The nurses and other patient care specialties you mentioned are directly involved in hands-on patient care. There is a compelling reason for licensing that overrides the issues of expense and logistics. MT work is offshored because an MT does not have to be physically present here to perform the job. That would not change with licensing. U.S. x-rays are now being read by radiologists in places like India and Australia because they don't have to be physically present here to do it. They are apparently able to meet the licensing requirements from their locations, what makes you think foreign MTs wouldn't be able to do the same?

Requiring MTs to be licensed would not solve any of our current problems and would likely create so many more that MT would no longer be a viable profession for Americans.

Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.

The MTs abroad are posted in the AHDI magazine (sm) - OTE

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obtaining the CMT as well. ..

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