Can a Radiography Student Be Expelled for Forging Mammography and Ultrasound Patient Diagnostic Imaging Dockets?

A university will summarily expel an undergraduate radiography student (B.Rad. or B.Sc. Radiography), cancel all clinical hospital rotation credits, and report the student to the Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria (RRBN) for professional debarment for forging mammography compression and exposure logs, fabricating obstetric or abdominal ultrasound patient imaging dockets, or falsifying clinical radiographer preceptor attestation signatures. In accredited medical imaging curricula, clinical posting logbooks represent legal statutory evidence verifying that the student radiographer has actively participated in and performed supervised diagnostic imaging examinations; fabricating imaging records compromises patient diagnostic safety, conceals clinical inexperience, and violates professional radiography codes of conduct.

Teaching hospital radiological departments and university clinical examination boards carry out rigorous audits to verify the authenticity of all submitted imaging logs.

1. The clinical radiography coordinator audits submitted clinical logbooks prior to the final professional examinations and notices identical patient demographics, acoustic findings, or breast tissue density classifications across different dockets.
2. The chief radiographer cross-references cited hospital accession numbers and examination dates against the Radiology Information System (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) database.
3. The audit reveals that cited patient identification numbers correspond to non-existent patients, or that no ultrasound scans or mammograms were performed at the recorded timestamps.
4. The clinical supervisor whose signature appears on the logbook inspects the entries and formally submits a written affidavit attesting to signature forgery.
5. The Head of Department issues an immediate suspension from hospital clinical postings and transmits a formal charge of clinical forgery to the College Provost.
6. The Provost forwards the investigation dossier to the University Student Disciplinary Committee (SDC) for formal hearings.
7. The student is summoned before the disciplinary committee to defend their clinical documentation under constitutional principles of fair hearing.
8. The University Senate adopts the committee’s findings and ratifies an order of summary expulsion, notifying the RRBN to bar the student from clinical imaging training nationwide.

Acquiring genuine diagnostic imaging competence is essential for radiographers who will operate ionizing and acoustic diagnostic equipment to evaluate patient pathologies.

• Official Faculty of Allied Health Sciences Radiography Clinical Posting Logbook.
• Certified copies of teaching hospital radiology department daily patient intake registers and RIS logs.
• Forensic signature comparison report and written disclaimers from supervising clinical radiographers.
• Original clinical imaging dockets and ultrasound thermal printouts impounded during the audit.

Radiography students must complete required clinical procedures diligently and report any difficulties in meeting procedure quotas honestly to clinical tutors.

Under RRBN regulations and university examination codes, forging clinical signatures is classified as gross professional misconduct and criminal fraud, carrying mandatory expulsion and total debarment from the radiography profession nationwide.

Maintaining uncompromising honesty in clinical training ensures that graduating radiographers possess genuine technical competencies to deliver safe, accurate diagnostic imaging services.