Road to Radiography

Friday was a rather slow day for me in clinical.  I had to go on a 2-hour delay since school was on a delay for the weather.  I arrived at clinical at 10am rather than my normal 8:30am on Friday.  After the current weather closings and delays, I’m 9 hours behind schedule on my clinical work for the semester.  In the greater scheme of things, we are allowed to miss two days of clinical without penalty, so I need to find out about making up this time. 

I can remember the days when I loved a snow day.  I still love the snow, but when it interferes with my goals, it’s a annoying :)  I have a lot of work to get done, and I don’t want things beyond my control to get in the way of that. 

My clinical day on Friday wasn’t overly productive.  I only logged 16 procedures, and a majority of them were spines, which aren’t good for anything but experience for me at this point.  10 of the 16 procedures I logged were spines, and two were orbits.  The four procedures that were useful to me were a forearm (which turned into a pediatric upper extremity master comp), an ankle, and two knees.  I didn’t get the comp on either of those though.  Neither of the knee exams were enough views for a master comp, and I had the lateral view of the ankle slightly rotated.  The lateral ankle can be a little tricky sometimes.  Putting the malleoli perpendicular to the image receptor doesn’t always mean that the ankle will be ‘flat’.  I had a small patient with a very small foot, and I did not catch this.  What I did get out of it was some valuable experience though.  I’ll not make that mistake again :)

I met another person who graduated from my program in 2007.  This is the 4th 2007 graduate that I have met who is working in the area.  That gives me some hope that the job market isn’t as tough as they say…

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