An investigation into the development of professionalism amongst diagnostic radiography students

This research explores diagnostic radiography students' perceptions of professionalism and how they learn and develop their understanding of what It means to be a professional. The research takes place at a time when advances in technology, expansion of roles, demands for public service (Hilton, 2004) and economic productivity (Bloor and Maynard, 2006) generate a multitude of competing professional expectations.