“Do you see what I see?” The importance of visual spatial ability for Medical Radiation Technologists.

Abstract

MRTs practice clinically and are educated within an ever-changing technical environment with increasing professional expectations of change in scope of practice, role expansion, role extension and advanced practice. Visual spatial ability, sometimes called Mental Rotation ability, is described as a complex process allowing the brain to see objects as mental three-dimensional models but arising from two dimensional information. It is identified as important to successful practice.