Online Mammography QA Course

The Online Mammography QA course (oMamQA) is a comprehensive training tool designed to equip learners to confidently perform and interpret the results of QA tests.

The course provides a nationally consistent approach to QA in digital mammography for BreastScreen radiographers, as well as members of the broader mammography professional community.

This module is a valuable resource not just for mammography radiographers, but for medical radiation practitioners, and other allied health professions working in nuclear medicine or diagnostic imaging across Australia and New Zealand. Anyone interested in enrolling in oMamQA for CPD or skills-building is encouraged to do so. 

Learning Outcomes:
  • Be competent to perform routine QA tests on digital mammography equipment in line with BreastScreen Australia NAS and RANZCR guidelines
  • Understand the reasons behind each QA test and the importance of QA in optimizing equipment performance and ensuring radiation safety
  • Identify artefacts on digital images and develop an awareness of their causes and removal
  • Be proficient in completing basic troubleshooting to resolve issues arising in QA.
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Breast Screen Victoria | oMamQA for Certificate of Mammographic Practice
 
The oMamQA module comprises part of BreastScreen Victoria Radiographer Training Centre's CMP Mammography Training.
 
ACPSEM does not enrol BSV students in this course directly. Please contact BSV if you are trying to enrol in or access the course. 
  
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 Members of the wider Mammography Community | oMamQA for CPD 
 

For members of the wider mammography community interested in streamlining their department's QA process and/or undertaking this as a skills builder for CPD purposes, the ACPSEM offers 12 months enrolment in the oMamQA course. 

Users may enrol directly through the ACPSEM website. Upon succesful completion of the course, users will be issued a certificate of completion. 

  
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Course Structure 
 

The oMamQA course is comprised of 12 self-directed modules. Flexible options allow you to tailor the course to your needs according to your personal experience and equipment.

Modules of engaging lectures, annotated images, and video demonstrations build knowledge while the complementing activities such as quizzes, choose-your-own- adventure assignments and self-reflective tools help to reinforce the principles and practice.

  1. Introduction to QA & QC
  2. Physics of Digital Mammography
  3. Test Equipment
  4. Tests Relevant to All Systems
  5. CR Tests
  6. DR Tests
  7. Printer Tests
  8. Film Digitiser Tests
  9. Biopsy Tests
  10. Artefacts
  11. Troubleshooting
  12. Radiation Safety
  
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Fees and Enrolment
 

Enrolment (12 months access): $350 (inc GST)

The ACPSEM does not accept direct enrolments in oMamQA for CMP students. If you are looking to enrol, or are already enrolled and need help with accessing the oMamQA Course, please contact rtc@breastscreen.org.au directly.

  
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Acknowledgements
 

This project was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health.

ACPSEM would like to thank BreastScreen NSW for their generous sharing of resources for this project. ACPSEM would also like to thank BreastScreen WA, SA, NT, VIC, TAS, NSW and ACT for providing staff for consultation during this project.

  

 



 
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