Mid-Semester Conferences
Our mid-semester conferences have been scheduled. Mine is scheduled for 12:30pm on October 11th. This is normally a clinical day, but we will get out of clinical at 11:30 instead of 2pm so we can have these conferences. The purpose of this conference is to evaluate our progress towards our goals for the semester in clinical. My semester goals for the RAD-151 Clinical class are as follows… I still have two more clinical days before the mid-semester point:
| REQUIREMENT: | My Status as of TODAY: | Multiple Requirements: |
| Observe 120 Procedures | 62 Complete | |
| 4 Master Comps | 0 Complete | |
| Darkroom Evaluation | Complete | One Time Only |
| Digital Imaging Evaluation | Incomplete | One Time Only |
| Equipment Familiarization | Complete | One Time Only |
| File Room Evaluation | Incomplete | One Time Only |
| Orientation Evaluation | Complete | Once at each Rotation |
| Portable Evaluation | Incomplete | One Time Only |
| Reception Evaluation | Complete | One Time Only |
I’ll have a new number of procedural observations required for next semester, and it will be a lot more since our clinical will be two days per week instead of just one. I should get my first master comp on the chest x-ray tomorrow. I got 4 pre-comps last week and just need one more before I can complete that. I would like to get a couple KUB and erect abdomen pre-comps tomorrow as well if at all possible. I need 5 pre-comps on the KUB and just 3 on the upright abdomen. Currently, these are the only procedures I’m allowed to pre-comp and comp, so getting 4 master comps right now is an impossibility. We have to pass our lab test on the procedure before we can pre-comp the procedures in clinical. I’ll be testing on fingers, hand, wrist, forearm, and elbow in lab on October 16th, so that will offer me up some more opportunities in that arena. In theory, there actually are two more exams that I can pre-comp and comp. They are the pediatric chest and abdomen. In my clinical site, I haven’t seen a pediatric patient yet having those exams, so it may or may not be a possibility.
We’re out of class on Monday and Tuesday of next week, but I will return to a test in the Patient Care and Intro to Radiography class that’s gonna require a lot of study time. I’m going to dedicate Monday and Tuesday to studying for that test and I’m gonna relax all weekend (or as much as possible.)