Grand Valley State University’s health, science program expansions include new degrees

Responding to the growth in health care, Grand Valley State University has developed several new majors to adequately prepare students for the field specialties.

According to excerpts from the story:

The past few years have seen expansions in two Grand Valley State University health and sciences programs. The first expansion, in the radiologic and imaging sciences department, has turned what was one major with three possible emphases into three separate majors.

“We had a program of study here in (radiologic) imaging, but we didn’t have separate majors in the program,” said Roy Olsson, dean of the College of Health Professions. “We’ve progressed far enough that the fields were uniquely different. We decided that the best avenue would be brand new programs that would represent the three fields.”

GVSU has become one of only a handful of schools that offer the specific degreed programs.

“One (major) would be radiation therapy, which is mainly used for cancer. Then we have diagnostic medical stenography. That’s anything from ultrasound to any imaging you would have. That’s a pretty broad field,” he said.

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