11/04/2025
As we continue our celebration of National Rad Tech Week, let's turn back the clock! This is the Radium Institute, site of the first radiologic technologist training program in history, designed to serve wounded troops on the front lines in WWI. By 1916, she was training women in X-ray physics and positioning, vehicle maintenance, darkroom technique, etc. This was a brief and *intense* program, as they were to deploy rapidly to the front lines...eventually imaging well north of 1,000,000 wounded soldiers. How cool is that? The very first rad tech program in history was specifically for portable x-ray! And in 1919, while American troops were waiting departure for home, she trained them as well. The institute still stands today.
