How do you do CQR???

For video explanations and details please visit ASRT and ARRT.  

Continuing Qualifications Requirements, CQR, is a process that technologists will have to perform if they received credentials after 2011.  You will receive notice 7 seven years after your credential date and you have 3 years to complete it (Totaling a 10 year window).

The first step is an email from ARRT saying your CQR window has opened.  Then, you’ll have access to optional FREE topic refresher mini-videos posted by ARRT.   Next, you’ll schedule to take the FREE Structured Self-Assessment (SSA).  This is a 120-question survey of your knowledge that you cannot fail.  This can be taken at home with a webcam proctor or else at a qualified testing center.

Each topic category has 10 questions and a 7 is a passing score.  Areas that were identified as “needing additional learning” will require you to complete “Prescribed Continuing Education” based on the category.  ARRT will show you a list of pre-identified CE’s or else you can search on your own, but these CE’s can count toward the biennial CEU’s you’d be completing anyways (24 in two years).

In the best case scenario, you’ll pass every category and be all set for another ten years.  Most techs will have just a few categories to brush-up on in a casual timeframe.  In the worst case scenario, you’ll be prescribed CE’s in all categories equaling the maximum 36 hours Prescription, but you have 3 years to complete them (Which is the same math you’d be doing for your biennium anyhow if you start your CQR on-time).  Many websites and local societies are offering CQR-categorized lectures that you may be in search of and so you CAN earn the Prescribed CE’s for free if you plan well.  The tricky part is the math.  The content areas for CQR Credits need to total what you were prescribed and that number may be different that the CEU credit numbers it’s worth (0.5 CQR in “Radiation Safety/Dose” and 2.5 CEU’s for the same lecture or article).