ETHICS AND JURISPREDENCE
RIGHT OF RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS AND
PATIENTS
RIGHT
 A claim to particular privilege
RESPONSIBILITY
 An obligation to answer for an act done
 An obligation on the person to perform
some act for which he becomes
accountable
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF RADIOLOGIC
TECHNOLOGISTS
1.) To promote health
2.) To prevent illness
3.) To restore health
4.) To alleviate suffering
RIGHT OF PATIENTS
1.) Radiologic/X-ray technologists are responsible
to those people that require nursing care
2.) Promotes an environment in which the values,
customs and spiritual beliefs of the individual are
respected
3.) Needs confidence, personal information and
uses judgment in sharing this information
LEGAL MATTERS RELEVANT TO RADIOLOGIC
TECHNOLOGISTS
CONTRACT
 An agreement mutually arrived by two or
more individuals to do a particular thing in
exchange for some consideration
 Meeting of minds between two or more
parties
 Must have employers and employees
relationship
BREACH OF CONTRACT
 Where a contract exist and either party
TYPES OF CONTRACT
1.) FORMAL CONTRACT
 Those which cannot be perfected w/o
compliance with the special formalities
required by the law such as donations &
mortages of real property
2.) INFORMAL CONTRACT
 Result of written document or
correspondence which the law does not
require special formalities
3.) EXPRESS CONTRACT
 Those contract where the consent of the
parties is given expressly in writing or
verbally
4.) IMPLIED CONTRACT
 Those contracts where the consent of the
parties is not given expressly but is
deducible from the conduct or acts of the
parties such as an implied agency
REQUISITES OF CONTRACT
 Two or more person must participate
 Consent – freely given
 Object or subject matter must be specified
 Cause of obligation is established
o In every obligation, there’s always a
corresponding right
 Contracting parties must have the legal
capacity in entering a contract
o Below 18 y/o, immediate relative
will sign the contract
 Parties must be in sound mind
 They must not in any way be forced in
contract
 Parties involved must consent to the
contract
violating it terms
 Prevention of performance
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 Failure to perform because of o Both contracting parties are

inconvenience of difficulty incapacitated
 Abandonment of duty 4.) RESCISSIBLE CONTRACT
 Those validity entered into by the
LUCID INTERVAL contracting parties, but for having caused
 The person is in sound mind economic damage or lesion to one party or
 During lucid interval, the consent given is to a third party or for having been entered
valid into a fraud of creditors or w/o knowledge
& approval of the judicial authority
NLRC LAW
 National Labor Relation Commission  Rule of conduct pronounced by a
controlling authority which may be
CLASSIFICATIONS OF DEFECTIVE CONTRACT enforced
1.) VOIDABLE/ANNULLABLE CONTRACT  A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the
 Those where the contract of the party is supreme power in a state commanding
defective either because of incapacity to what is right & prohibiting what is wrong
give consent or where the consent is
vitiated by mistake, violence, intimidation, SOURCE OF THE LAW
undue influence or fraud 1.) CONSTITUTION
2.) VOID/INEXISTENCE CONTRACT  Presidential decree
 Void abinitio  Republic Act
 Those which produce no legal effect for 2.) LEGISLATURE
they do not exist in the eyes of the law  Congress
 Not subjected to ratification 3.) JUDICIARY
 It is valid until there is a judicial declaration  Department of Justice
3.) UNENFORCEABLE CONTRACT  Supreme court
 Those which cannot be enforced in the  Court of Appeals
court because of the existence of the 4.) ADMINISTRATIVE
following reasons:  Executive power of president
o They were entered into the behalf of
another w/o authority or in excess LEGAL ASPECT
of authority 1.) CIVIL LAW
o There’s non-compliance with the  Evidence is needed
statue of frauds  Must pay for the damages
 Preponderance of evidence
2.) CRIMINAL LAW
 Beyond reasonable doubt
 We need to be watchful
 Always in favor of the accuse 3.) ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
 Civilly liable  Ground for revocation of license
o Should pay for damages
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TERMINOLOGIES  Law that holds physician and radiologic

1.) OBLIGATION technologist harmless when rendering aid
 Act of binding oneself to do something to a person in emergency situation
2.) JURISPRUDENCE 12.) NARCOTIC LAW
 Philosophy of science of law  Law with its primary purpose to control and
3.) PUBLIC LAW suppress the illegal use and distribution of
 Law in which the government is directly narcotics
involved 13.) WILL
 Regulate the relationship between  A legal declaration of a person’s intention
individual and government upon death
4.) PRIVATE LAW 14.) TESTATOR
 Regulates the relationship among people  One who makes the will
 Examples: relating contracts, ownership of 15.) LAWSUIT
properties & practice of Radiologic  Legal action in a control of law
Technology  Proceeding in court for a purpose
5.) CONSTITUIONAL LAW o To enforce right
 State the principle and provisions for o To redress wrong
establishment of specific law 16.) LITIGATION
6.) LEGISLATURE  Process of the lawsuit
 Responsible for enacting laws 17.) PLANTIFF
 Congress body  Person or government bringing a lawsuit
7.) STATUTORY LAW against another
 Law enacted by this body 18.) DEFENDANT
8.) JUDICIARY SYSTEM  Person being accused of a tort or crime
 Responsible for reconciling controversies 19.) EUTHANASIA
and conflicts  Mercy killing
9.) COMMON LAW  Act of painlessly putting to death of person
 Body of law and accumulated decision who is suffering from incurable or
10.) ADMINISTRATIVE LAW dispressing disease
 Made by the executive law of government  Criminal charge of homicide
11.) GOOD SAMARITAN LAW 20.) MALA INSE
 Act is a wrongful from the very beginning
21.) MALA PROHIBITA
 There’s a law that prohibits the act
22.) LEGAL RIGHT
 A claim which can be enforced by legal
means against a person whose duty is to
respect it
23.) CIVIL CASE  Plantiff or accused
 Complainant or defendant 25.) DUE PROCESS
24.) CRIMINAL CASE  A fair & orderly process which aims to
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protect & enforce a person’s right 37.) CONSIDERATION

26.) TRIAL  The price, motive or matter of inducement
 Facts are presented & determined of a contract
27.) SUMMONS  Refers to a fee, salary or reward
 A writ commanding an authorized person to 38.) ABORTION
notify a party to appear in court to answer a  The expulsion of the product of conception
complaint made against him before the fetus is viable
28.) SUBPOENA
 An order that requires a person to attend at BILL OF RIGHT
a specific time & place to testify as a 1.) Freedom of worship
witness 2.) Freedom of speech
29.) SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM 3.) Freedom of vote
 A subpoena that requires witness to bring
documents/papers in his possession TORTS AND CRIMES
30.) HEARSAY EVIDENCE 1.) TORTS
 Rumors not admissible as evidence  A wrong committed by a person against
31.) PERJURY another person by his property
 The willful telling of a lie under oath 2.) CRIME
32.) DYING DECLARATION  An offense against persons or property
 Considered hearsay unless the dying person against the public
is a victim of a crime
33.) HOLOGRAPHIC WILL 3.) NEGLIGENCE
 A will which is written, dated and signed by  Failure of a professional person to act at all
the hand of the testator himself times within accepted standards of a
34.) BREACH OF CONTRACT profession
 The failure, without legal cause to perform 4.) MALPRACTICE
any promise which forms the whole part or  Act of negligence/acting beyond the
parts of a contract radiologic technology standards
35.) CAUSE 5.) SLANDER
 A ground of legal action  Untruthful oral statement about a person
36.) CONSENT that subjects him to ridicule
 Approval, permission or agreement  Wrong defamation
6.) LIBEL
 Untruthful written statement about a
person that subjects him to ridicule
 There must be 2nd person to hear or read
the comment
7.) INVASION OF PRIVACY  A threat or an attempt to make bodily
 A wrong that involves the right of person to contact with another person without
be let alone person’s consent
8.) ASSAULT 9.) BATTERY
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 An assault that is carried out
10.) FRAUD
 Will and purposeful misconduct that could
or has caused loss or harm to person or
property
 False presentation of some fact and the
intention that it will be acted upon by
another person
CRIMINAL ACTS
1.) FELONY
 A crime punishable by imprisonment in a
state
2.) MISDEMEANOR
 Crime with a lesser offense
 Punishable with fines and imprisonment or
both for less than a year
st
3.) 1 DEGREE MURDER
 Illegally killing another person with motive
4.) 2nd DEGREE MURDER
 Killing another person without previous
deliberation
LEGAL ASPECT AND THE RADIOLOGIC
TECHNOLOGIST
NEGLIGENCE
 Refers to the commission or omission of an
act pursuant to a duty, that reasonably
prudent person in the same or similar
circumstances would or would not do and
MALPRACTICE
acting or non-acting is the proximate cause
of the injury to another person or to his
property
FELONIES
 Acts or omissions punishable by law and
they may be committed not only by means
of deceit but also by fault
DECEIT
 The fraudulent withholding or
misrepresenting of facts whereby a person
is misled to his injury
DECEDENT
 A person whose property is transmitted
through succession, whether or not he left a
will
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
 A fair and orderly legal proceedings which
observe fundamental rules and designed for
the protection and enforcement of
individual rights and liberties
UNDUE INFLUENCE
 Influence used directly to procure the will
and which amounts to a coercion
destroying the free action of the testator
CRIMINAL INTENT
 The intention to commit a crime
CONSIDERATION
 One element of a contract to make a
promise, a binding and to make an
agreement which creates an obligations
 An agreement upon a sufficient
consideration, to do or not to do a
particular thing
 Implies the ideas of improper or unskilled
care of a patient by a radiologic technologist
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 Denotes a stopping beyond one’s authority
with serious consequences
DOCTRINE OF FORCE MAJEURE
 Act of God
 An irresistible force, one that is unforeseen
or inevitable
 Under Civil Code of the Philippines, no
person shall be responsible for those events
which could not be foreseen or for which,
though foreseen, were inevitable, except in
cases expressly specific by law
 Examples: flood, earthquake, fire &
accident
DOCTRINE OF RESPONDENT SUPERIOR
 Let the master answer
 Master-servant rule
 Let the master answer for the acts of the
subordinate
 The liability is expanded to include the
liability from the employee to the master
 In many circumstances all employer is
responsible for the actions of employees
performed within the course of their
employment
DOCTRINE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR
 The thing speaks for itself
 The defendant is presumed to be negligent
where the instrumentality causing
another’s injury was in the defendant’s
control and where the accident was one
 An immediate unconsented touching of
another person/patient
which ordinarily does not happen in the
absence of someone’s negligence
IGNORANTIA JURIS NON EXCUSAT/IGNORANCIA
LEGIS NON
 Ignorance of the law excuses no one
DURA LEX SED LEX
 The law may be harsh, but it is still the law
LEGAL MAXIM
 Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege
 No crime, if there’s no law punishing it
INCOMPETENCE
 The lack of ability, legal qualification or
fitness to discharge the required duty
TORTS
 A legal wrong, committed against a person
or property independent of a contract
which render the person who commits it
liable for damages in a civil action
 Private or civil wrong/injury, including
action for bad faith, breach of contract, for
which the court will provide remedy in the
form of an action for damages
 The failure to comply a duty
 The failure to perform a duty that leads to
harm of another person
INTENTIONAL TORTS
1.) ASSAULT
 Imminent threat of harmful/offensive
bodily contact
 Intimidation of the patient/threatening the
patient
2.) BATTERY
3.) FALSE IMPRISONMENT/ILLEGAL DETENTION
(Private)
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 Unjustifiable detention of a person w/o  A form of negligent in which any

legal warrant within the boundaries fixed by professional misconduct
the defendant by an act/violation of duty  Unreasonable lack of professional skill
intended to result in such confinement 3.) INCOMPETENCE
 ARBITRARY DETENTION (Public)  Lack of ability
4.) DEFAMATION  This is ground for revocation/suspension of
 Character assassination, be in written (libel) the certificate of registration
or spoken (slander)
 Dishonor to the character ELEMENTS OF PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE
5.) INVASION OF PRIVACY 1.) Existence of a duty on the part of the person
 The right to privacy 2.) Failure to meet the standard of due case
 The right to be left alone 3.) The foreseeability of harm resulting from failure
 The right to be unwarran ted and to meet the standard
exposure to public view
 To live one’s life without having anyone’s CAUSES OF NEGLIGENCE
name, picture or private affairs made 1.) Carelessness
public against one’s will 2.) Ignorance
3.) Lack of skills
UNINTENTIONAL TORTS
1.) PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE FOUR ELEMENTS OF NEGLIGENCE (4 D’s)
 Commission/omission of an act, pursuant to 1.) DUTY
duty that a reasonably prudent in the same  To use due case
or similar circumstance would or would not  Case which should be given under
do & acting on the non-acting of which is circumstances
proximate cause of injury to another person 2.) DERELICTION
or his property  Failure to use due case
 Examples:  Not giving the case which should be given
o Mistaken identity under the circumstances
o Defects in equipment such as  Failure to ask like allergy
stretchers and wheelchairs may lead
to falls thus injuring the patient 3.) DIRECT CAUSATION
2.) MALPRACTICE  Failure to use due case causes injury
 A negligence act committed by a person in  Failure to ask like allergy
professional capacity  Previous experience, the drugs and reaction
4.) DAMAGE OF INJURY
 Actual harm results

CRIMES
1.) LARCENCY
 Involves taking the property of another for 2.) ABORTION
his permanent use  Illegal destruction and bringing forth
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prematurely of the human fetus before  A joint agreement of two or more persons
natural time of birth  The act of one is the act of all

STAGES OF CRIMES
1.) CONSUMATED
 All elements executed w/ successful result
PERSONS INVOLVED IN A CONSPIRACY
2.) FRUSTRATED
 All elements executed w/o successful result 1.) PRINCIPALS
3.) ATTEMPTED  Chief actor/mastermind
 Not all elements executed, no successful  Those persons who actually do or perform
result the act
 One who is actually present and aids in the
DEGREE OF CRIMES commission of an act
1.) GRAVE  Direct participation, induction &
 Capital punishment or penalty of above 6 indispensable
years and one day or fine of more than 6 2.) ACCESSORIES
thousand pesos  Those persons who assist or participate in
2.) LESS GRAVE the commission of a crime
 Penalty of 1 month and 1 day to 6years or  May assist or encourage the principal
fine of not more than 6 thousand pesos but offender with the intent to have the crime
not less than 200 pesos committed
3.) LIGHT 3.) ACCOMPLICES
 Penalty of 1 day to 30 days or fine more  Those persons who not take a direct part in
than 200 pesos the execution of the act, induce, or
cooperate through another act essential to
CRIME AGAINST HONOR the consumption of the crime
1.) DEFAMATION  One who is guilty of complicity in crime,
 Injury to the honor and reputation of either by being present/abetting in it
another  Absent in place when it was committed
 SLANDER: oral defamation  Example: lookout
 LIBEL: written/printed defamation
 SLANDER BY DEED: an act which causes CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL LIBERY AND
dishonor to another SECURITY
1.) KIDNAPPING
CONSPIRACY  Forcible abduction of another
2.) ILLEGAL DETENTION
 Detaining a person without a warrant
3.) TRESPASSING
 Entering another personal house or CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS
property without a warrant 1.) ILLEGAL GAMBLING
 Playing for money
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2.) INDECENT EXPOSURE
 Intentional exposure of one’s private parts
in public
3.) PROSTITUTION
 A crime committed by a women to engage a
sexual intercourse for pay
MISDEMEANOR
 A general name for a criminal offense which
does not in law amount to the grade of a
felony
CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH AFFECT
CRIMINAL LIABLITIES
1.) JUSTIFYING
 Under which the law justifies a person from
criminal liability for the commission of a
crime
 Examples:
o Self-defense, defense of one’s
property & defense of another
 Unlawful aggression
 Reasonable necessity
 Lack of sufficient provocation
o Fulfillment of a lawful duty
o Obedience of lawful order
 Order must be lawful
 Superior acting within the
scope of practice
2.) EXEMPTING
 Circumstances under which the law exempt
a person from criminal liability for the
commission of a crime
o The offender committed the crime
in contempt of or with
 Examples:
o The offender is insane or imbecile
o The offender is less than 9 y/o
(under R.A. 9344 Juvenile Justice
Act)
o The person failed to perform an act
required by law due to some lawful
causes
o Performance of a lawful act causes
injury by mere accident
o Under compulsion of uncontrollable
force
o Under impulse of uncontrollable
fear
3.) MITIGATING
 Those which do not constitute a justification
or excuse of the offense in question, but
which, in fairness and mercy, may be
considered as extenuating or reducing the
degree or normal culpability
 Examples:
o The offender had no intention to
commit the injury
o The offender is under 18 y/o or over
70 y/o
o The offender was provoked or
threatened by the offended party
o The offender voluntarily
surrendered to authorities
o The offender was suffering from a
physical defect
4.) AGGRAVATING
 Those attending the commission of a crime
which increase the criminal liability of the
offender or make his guilt more severe
 Examples:
o The offender look advantage of his
public office or there was abuse of
power
o Treachery or taking advantage of
superior strength/position
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o Price, reward & promise  Intentional burning of another person’s

o Use of fire, poison & explosion house
o Calamities 3.) SABOTAGE
o Craft/fraud  Intentional damage to the property of the
o Disguise employed employer by the employee
o Evident premeditation
o Cruelty CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY
5.) ALTERNATING 1.) RAPE
 May increase or decrease criminal liability  Forcible sexual intercourse with a woman
depending in the nature and effects of the without her consent
crime 2.) ADULTERY
 Relationship  Sexual intercourse of a married woman
o No criminal liability but has civil with a man other than her husband
liability 3.) CONCUBINAGE
 Cohabitation of a married man with a
CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS woman other than his wife
1.) MURDER
 The unlawful killing of a human being with
intent to kill
2.) HOMICIDE CRIMES AGAINST THE CIVIL STATUS OF PERSON
 The killing of a human being to another 1.) SIMULATION OF BIRTH
 Crime by a person who kills another person  Crime committed by one who enters in a
other than his father, mother or child birth certificate, a birth that did not occur
3.) PARRICIDE – killing a parent 2.) SUBSTITUTION OF ONE CHILD TO ANOTHER
4.) PATRICIDE – killing a father  Replacing one child with another
5.) MATRICIDE – killing a mother 3.) BIGAMY
6.) INFANTICIDE  Contracting a second marriage when
 Killing of a child less than 3 days of age already legally married to another

CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC INTEREST

1.) ROBBERY 1.) FORGERY
 Unlawful taking of another person’s  Altering a written documents for deceit
property 2.) PERJURY
2.) ARSON  Telling a lie under oath

CRIME
 An act committed or omitted in violation of
law
FELONY CRIMES CONNECTED WITH PUBLIC OFFICE
 A crime punishable under the revised penal 1.) GRAFT
code  Dishonest transaction in public office
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2.) BRIBERY  Intent

 Receiving money or gifts in connection with 2.) CULPA
the performance of official duties  Freedom
3.) CORRUPTION  Intelligence
Giving money or gifts in connection with the  Imprudent, negligence or lack of foresight
performance of his duties or skill

CRIMINAL LAW
KINDS OF FELONIES ACCORDING TO THE DEGREE
AND ATTAINMENT OF OBJECTIVES
FELONIES/DELITOS 1.) ATTEMPTED FELONY
 Act or omission punishable by the Revised  The offender commences to do the criminal
Penal Code (Jan 1, 1932) and the criminal objective was not achieve
 Overt act 2.) FRUSTRATED FELONY
 Omission in action  The offender has performed all the acts
necessary for the commission of the crime
R.A. 7431 but the criminal objective was not achieve
 Acted in 1992 3.) CONSUMMATED FELONY
 Violation on this act is not considered  The offender has performed all the acts
felony necessary for the commission of the crime
and the criminal objective was achieved
CLASSIFICATION OF FELONIES ACCORDING PENALTIES FOR CRIMES
TO MEANS BY WHICH THEY ARE COMMITTED 1.) ARRESTO MENOR
1.) INTENTIONAL FELONIES  Imprisonment from 1 day to 30 days
 Deceit (Dolo/Malice) 2.) ARRESTO MAYOR
2.) CULPABLE FELONIES  Imprisonment for 1 month and 1 day to 6
 Fault (Culpa) months
 Negligence 3.) PRISION CORRECTIONAL
 Imprisonment from 6 months and 1 day to
REQUISITES OF DOLO & CULPA 6 years
1.) DOLO 4.) PRISION MAYOR
 Freedom  Imprisonment from 6 years and 1 day to 10
 Intelligence years
5.) RECLUSION TEMPORAL
 Imprisonment for 12 years and 1 day to 20
years
6.) RECLUSION PERPETUA
 Life imprisonment
 No bail
7.) DEATH PENALTY
DEGREE OF PUNISHMENT ATTACHED TO IT
CLASSIFICATION OF FELONIES ACCORDING TO THE 1.) GRAVE FELONY
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 Punishable by imprisonment ranging from 6  A system of moral rules and principles that
years and 1 day to life imprisonment becomes the standard
 A fine exceeding P6,000.00
2.) LESS GRAVE FELONY AUTONOMY
 Punishable by imprisonment ranging from 1  Person’s right to make one’s decision
month and 1 day to 6 years
 A fine of P200.00-P6,000.00
3.) LIGHT FELONY RESPECT FOR OTHERS
 Punishable by imprisonment ranging from 1  Acknowledge the right of individuals to
day to 30 days make decision & love by others
 A fine not exceeding P200.00
BENEFICENCE
ARTICLE 4: REVISED PENAL CODE  Act of mercy & charity
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
1.) By any person committing felony although the FIDELITY
wrongful act done be different from that which he  Being faithful
intended  It involves keeping promises & agreements
 Doctrine: “El que es causa de la causa es
causa del mal causado” VERACITY
 “He who is the cause of the cause is the  Being honest
cause of the evil cause”  People should always say the complete
2.) By any person performing an act which would truth
be an offense against persons or property, where it
is not for the inherent impossibility of its NON-MALEFICENCE
accomplishment or on account of the employment  The belief that a medical professional
of inadequate or ineffectual means should cause no harm

ROBBERY JUSTICE
 There’s a forceful entry  Equal rights

THEFT PATIENT’S RIGHTS

 No forcible entry  Every person/parent must be treated with
dignity
ETHICS  Patient must be provided confidentiality &
privacy

PATIENT CONSENT
 May be verbal, written or implied
VALID PATIENT CONSENT 3.) The patient must be adequately informed about
1.) The patient must be of sound mind & legal age the procedure
2.) The patient must give consent freely
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RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY CODE OF ETHICS
 May 28, 1993
 Atty. Oscar Romero
o Author of Radtech Creed
ARTICLE 1: Relation with the State & Society
ARTICLE 2: Relation with the Patient/Clients
ARTICLE 3: Relation with the other Allied
Professionals
ARTICLE 4: Relation to Agency
ARTICLE 5: Relation to oneself
R.A. 7431
 Radiologic Technology Act of 1992
 February 27, 1992/April 22, 1992
 An act regulating the practice of RT in the
Philippines, creating the board of RT,
defining its powers & functions & for other
purposes
SECTION 1: Title
SECTION 2: Statement of Policy
SECTION 3: Definition of Terms
SECTION 4: Practice of X-ray Technology
SECTION 5: Practice of Radiologic Technology
SECTION 6: Creation of the Board of Radiologic
Technology
 4 members; 1 chairman
 Appointed by the President
SECTION 7: Qualification of Board Members
 Be a citizen and resident of Philippines
 Be of good moral character
 Be at least 30 years of age
 Is neither a member of the faculty
SECTION 8: Term of Office
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 223 (PD 223)
 Chairmain – 3 years
 2 Members – 2 years
 Other 2 members – 1 year
 Wilhelmina Gana – Incumbent Chairman of
the Board
SECTION 9: Duties & Functions of the Board
 Subpoena duces tecum – certain
documents
 Subpoena Ad testificandum – ordinary
documents
SECTION 10: Compensation of the Board
SECTION 11: Removal of the Board
SECTION 12: Supervision of the Board & Custody
SECTION 13: Rules and Regulation
SECTION 14: Annual Report
SECTION 15: Requirement for the Practice of RT &
XT
 Certification of Registration from the Board
SECTION 16: Exemption from Examination in XT
SECTION 17: Exemption from Examintion in RT
SECTION 18: Examination Requirements
SECTION 19: Qualification for the Examination
 Filipino citizen
 Good moral character
 Has not been convicted of a crime involving
moral turpitude
 Holder of baccalaureate degree in RT
SECTION 20: Scope of Examination in XT
SECTION 21: Scope of Examination in RT
SECTION 22: Report of Ratings
SECTION 23: Oath Taking
SECTION 24: Issuance of Certificate of Registration
SECTION 25: Fees
SECTION 26: Penal Provisions
SECTION 27: Appropriations
SECTION 28: Repealing Clause:
SECTION 29: (Missing)
SECTION 30: Effectivity Clause
 February 27, 1992/April 22, 1992
 Creates professionals by the PRC
 ETHICS AND JURISPREDENCE

CORAZON AQUINO  December 27, 1993 & releases its results on

 President April 9, 1994
RAMON MITRA RESOLUTION #1
 Speaker of the House  May 12, 1993
NEPTALI GONZALES  Adaptation of seal/logo for Board of RT
 Senate President RESOLUTION #2
CATAILO L. SABIO  May 12, 1993
 Secretary General of House of  Registration as RT of 3 members of the
Representative Board
ANALECTO D. BADOY JR. RESOLUTION #3
 Secretary of the Senate  May 12, 1993
HERMOGENES POBRE  Reschedule of XT & RT Licensure
 Commissioner; Chairman when R.A. 7431 Examinations from December 1993 to June
signed into law 26 & 27 1993 (First Exam)
NORBERTO PALOMO RESOLUTION #4
 Father of Radtech Education  May 28, 1993
GILBERTO PALOMIQUE  Promulgation of the Code of Professional
 First President of PART Ethics for XT & RT

FIRST BOARD OF RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY

 Appointed in 1993  THE END 
 Fortunato C. Gabon (001) “BOARD EXAM is a matter of PREPARATION. If
o 1st Chairman you FAIL to prepare, you PREPARE to fail”
o Radiologic technologist 04/10/14
 Dexter Rodelas (002)
o Radiologic technologist
 Editha C. Mora (003)
o Radiologic Technologist
 Jose T. Gaffud
o Radiologist
 Eulinia M. Valdezio
o Physicist

COMPUTERIZED LICENSURE EXAMINATION