Winding Up
Wow… it’s been busy lately around here. I haven’t forgotten about my blog here and I really hate that I haven’t been able to post more regularly. When April rolls around, my work schedule gets very busy. That, on top of the school schedule, doesn’t leave me much time.
I’m in the middle of my final exams for the semester. I took the finals for the RAD-112 class today. I had the positioning exam which consisted of the GI tract and the urinary/biliary systems. I made a 99 on that exam. I also took the written exam which was cumulative from the entire semester. I’m not sure what I made on it yet, but I think I did well. I needed to make an 87 on it to get an A in the class for the semester. I should have reached that mark. Tomorrow, I have the cumulative written exam for the RAD-121 Imaging class and the final lab exam for that class as well. My grades in RAD-121 aren’t as high as I had hoped they would be, so I may end up with my first B since I returned to school this semester. This may be the semester where I stop having to worry about maintaining a 4.0 GPA. It’s nice, of course, to have a 4.0, but losing it won’t be the end of the world.
Clinical has been going well also. My current clinical site is, by far, the best I have seen so far. This hospital environment is staffed by the best techs I have met so far. Each of them is extremely qualified, and most of them have been very helpful to me in my efforts to learn this trade. My requirements for this semester were to log 300 procedures and 22 master competencies. I have logged over 500 procedures and managed to collect 34 comps. The extra comps I have accumulated will carry over to the summer semester, where I’m required to get 15, so I only need 3 more to get to that mark. My summer semester clinical rotation will be in another outpatient center. I should be able to get started on my fluoroscopy comps and pick up a few others as well during the 10-week session. I’ll be in clinical for 2.5 days per week this summer.
I’m also at a point in my program where I’m starting to think about where I would like to work when I graduate. So far, I have been in the hospital, outpatient center, and orthopedic office environments. Each of them definitely has its good and bad points, but I’m not sure where I want to go yet. Part of me wants to go into the hospital environment because of the large variety of procedures I would see there, including trauma, OR, and special procedures. The other part of me wants to work in an orthopedic office because of my personal interest in sports medicine.
This is my last week of school for the semester. I’ll finish my exams and clinical this week and then get two full weeks off before diving into the second round of the imaging class and then the physics of radiography. I’m going to enjoy a little time off…
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