ARRT INSTITUTES DAILY REPORTING LIMITS FOR CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Published May 2020
If your students are working on credentials using the postprimary eligibility pathway, be aware that on Jan. 1, 2020, we began limiting the number of clinical experience entries they can report on one day.
Keep in mind:
- The limits don’t apply to activities performed before Jan. 1, 2020—even if candidates don’t report them until after that date.
- We limit the number of entries candidates can report on a given day, not the number they can perform. That means candidates may perform additional patient procedures, but they can’t enter those procedures in the online tools. Instead, they must start fresh with new patients the next day.
The number of clinical experience entries candidates can report each day varies depending on the discipline.
WHAT ARE THE LIMITS?
DAILY REPORTING LIMITS FOR CLINICAL EXPERIENCE ENTRIES
| Discipline | Entries Allowed Each Day |
| Bone Densitometry | 15 |
| Breast Sonography | 9 |
| Cardiac Interventional Radiography | 8 |
| CT | 9 |
| MRI | 7 |
| Mammography | 16 |
| Vascular Interventional Radiography | 6 |
| Vascular Sonography | 28 |
Remember: we limit only the number of entries you can report per day, not the number you can perform.
For more details—including examples—read this article from our news feed.
WHY THE CHANGE?
The limit encourages candidates to use the learning strategy of distributed practice—that is, of extending learning rather than “cramming.” Studies show that people learn more effectively when they experience a greater number of relatively short training sessions, distributed over a longer time, instead of fewer, longer sessions over a shorter time. That learning model applies to both cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills.