Title V: Professions of medical electroradiology manipulator and medical laboratory technician

Any person who is not a doctor and who performs professional medical electroradiology procedures on medical prescription and under the responsibility of a doctor is considered to be practising the profession of medical electroradiology technician. Where applicable, the medical electroradiology manipulator works under the technical authority of a medical physicist for medical physics activities implemented during the preparation or performance of procedures exposing patients to ionising radiation. A Conseil d’Etat…

Persons holding the diplomas, certificates or titles mentioned in article L. 4351-3 or holding the authorisations provided for in article L. 4351-4, and registered on a departmental list, may practise the profession of medical electroradiology manipulator. The person concerned holds the professional title of medical electroradiology manipulator, with or without a qualification.

The diplomas mentioned in Article L. 4351-2 are the French State diploma for medical electroradiology manipulators or the diploma for advanced technicians in medical imaging and therapeutic radiology.

Medical electroradiology manipulators may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which issued them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. In the event that the evidence of formal qualifications from the country of origin, whether a Member State or a Party, is likely to be confused with evidence of formal qualifications requiring additional training in France, the competent authority may…

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a commission composed in particular of professionals, individually authorise to practise the profession of medical electroradiology manipulator nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who, without possessing one of the diplomas, certificates or evidence of formal qualifications provided for in articles L. 4351-3 and L. 4351-5,…

Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 4351-2, holders of a higher technician’s certificate in medical electroradiology may practise the profession of medical electroradiology manipulator and use the title of medical electroradiology manipulator with or without a qualification.

Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 4351-2, the following may practise the profession of medical electroradiology manipulator and bear the title of medical electroradiology manipulator, with or without a qualification: 1° Persons recruited before 29 May 1996 by a public body or a public health establishment or a public social establishment, for a permanent position as a medical electroradiology technician ; 2° Persons performing the duties of medical electroradiology manipulator…

Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 4351-2, persons recruited by private radiologists between 25 July 1984 and 1 January 1991 to provide them with assistance in accompanying and installing patients may, after passing an aptitude test, participate in the performance by these doctors of radiodiagnostic procedures set by decree of the Conseil d’Etat, after consulting the Académie nationale de médecine. These persons carry out their duties under the responsibility and…

A medical electroradiology technician who is a national of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who is established and legally practises the activities of a medical electroradiology technician in a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, may perform professional acts in France, on a temporary and occasional basis,…

When the authorisation to practise or the declaration of provision of services is issued, the medical electroradiology manipulator must have the language skills required to practise the profession and those relating to the systems of weights and measures used in France. The language proficiency test must be proportionate to the activity to be performed and must be carried out once the professional qualification has been recognised.