Road to Radiography

In today’s positioning class, we started looking at the humerus and shoulder girdle.  The humerus is quite simple with just two primary views.  The AP and Lateral views of the humerus seem simple enough.  The shoulder, however, is going to be quite a bit more complex.  My book is showing 17 views in the shoulder girdle area.  I know some of these are special views, but there is going to be a lot of work here.  We looked at a lot of these in class today via a powerpoint presentation, but we’ll start on them in lab tomorrow.  I think this will be the first really detailed section of the body we have studied so far.  There is a lot of anatomy and bone detail in this area. 

After the three tests I had last week, I thought I was gonna be test free this week, but we’re having a test in the Intro to Rad and Patient Care class on Wednesday.  This test is on basic concepts of imaging, and I don’t think it’s gonna be too difficult.  I’ll have a written test in the positioning class on Monday on the shoulder girdle anatomy and positioning concepts, so this weekend will be spent studying quite a bit. 

Tags: 1st Semester, RAD-111 //