Minority students benefit from mentoring programs.

Mentoring has been proposed as one strategy to attract minority students to the radiologic sciences profession. This case study describes a minority mentoring program conducted for pre-radiologic science students at a Midwestern university during the 1991-92 academic year. Ten minority radiologic sc...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Radiologic Technology Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 226 - 232
Main Authors: Cullen DL, Rodak B, Fitzgerald N, Baker S
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: American Society of Radiologic Technologists Mar/Apr93
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Summary:Mentoring has been proposed as one strategy to attract minority students to the radiologic sciences profession. This case study describes a minority mentoring program conducted for pre-radiologic science students at a Midwestern university during the 1991-92 academic year. Ten minority radiologic science students enrolled in the mentoring program. The study showed that mentoring may be a viable option to serve the special needs of minorities for recruitment and retention.