http://www.setzler.net/radiography My Journey Through Radiography School Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We all left clinical early today to go to the school to welcome the new class of students who start the radiography program in the fall. There are 10 new students coming in, and we had the opportunity to meet and greet them all this afternoon. This meeting ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/07/17/class-of-2010/ I would like to propose to the powers that be, a new competency requirement for aspiring radiologic technologists during their course of study. Since I have completed this competency many times during my clinical experiences, I also want to be the first student to claim proficiency in this procedure. ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/07/16/a-modest-proposal/ Hank and Melvin hard at work...I had another good day at clinical today. I logged another 14 procedures, which takes my total for the semester up to 230. I need 10 more procedures to get the maximum grade on that section of this class, so I might get ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/07/10/paranasal-sinuses-and-hiv/ Clinical is still going very well this summer. We have about three weeks left in this semester. The only thing that bothers me about this semester is that I haven't collected a lot of master comps. I have met the requirement for the maximum grade because I ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/07/09/trodding-on-through/ This is a holiday week, so my only clinical day was on Tuesday since I'm out of class on Thursday and Friday. Tuesday was a rather busy day though. I managed to comp the small bowel study, and in the process, I set my personal best time on ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/07/02/small-bowel-record/ I got my first opportunity to work on a voiding cystourethrogram in clinical today. I was glad to get the opportunity, but the experience overall was one of the most difficult I have had so far. The male ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/06/26/the-vcug/ We dove into RAD-131 (Physics) today. We had about 6 hours of lecture. This first physics class doesn't have a lab associated with it, so we'll be having lecture on Monday and Wednesday for the next 5 weeks from 9am to 4pm with a lunch break in the ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/06/25/physics/ An interesting milestone passed on Friday... Friday marked the half way point in my Radiography program. I hit the 5-week mark in the 10-week summer semester (third semester out of five). Right now, I'm sitting in an empty classroom while everyone else has left for lunch or whatever ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/06/23/half-way-there/ Today was one of the first really productive days I have had in clinical lately. My spinal comps have been slow in coming for various reasons. Maybe I'm just a little too picky, but probably because I haven't been in any great hurry to get them done. ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/06/19/spine-comps/ At my current clinical site, I am seeing an unusually large number of Barium Enemas being rescheduled because the patient is not properly 'cleaned out' for the procedure. I perform quite a few scout x-rays for this exam every week just to have the radiologist reschedule the patient for ... http://www.setzler.net/radiography/2008/06/14/be-reschedules/