Personal Statement: A Career As A Radiologist

A radiologist is someone who looks at medical images (such as X-Rays, Computerized Tomography scans, ultrasounds, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and uses it to detect medical problems. Some of the duties that radiologists perform include: diagnosing illnesses and treating patients using medical radiation. A radiologist can work at a public or private hospital or set up their own clinic. Working conditions for a radiologist who is employed at a hospital will not differ much from a clinic. You will not have to work not shifts or weekends just like a clinic. Residents usually take care of those shifts.

Radiologic technology is a satisfying and rewarding career. It is a technical and refined science. As a radiological technologist, there are many essential duties and responsibilities that have to be fulfilled in order to be a good one. First of all, radiological technologists have to maintain a well-mannered and professional behavior when gathering information. They have to assure their patients that they are in good hands therefore; they give patients the uppermost quality of care and services. Second of all, the main responsibility of a healthcare provider is to keep all knowledge of a patient’s health record confidential or secluded. That means radiological technologists cannot talk about patients at home or with friends and classmates

Radiology Technicians are like heroes. Without x-rays they do many people’s sicknesses would go un-treated , as well as undetected. The job of a radiology tech is sometimes very stressful, but even though that it is stressful they know it’s worth the stress because they are saving other people’s lives. When being a radiology technician it can be very dangerous because of the administering radiation, but the benefits of being able to know that you helped a person out ways all the negative factors of this career.

They thoroughly examine x-ray scans to see if there are an abnormalities present inside of the patient's body. X-rays aren’t the only things they work with. Radiologist also take MRI scans and CT scans, which are scans that use magnets and radio waves to create a picture of the interior of the human body. They can specialize in a number of things. For example, neuroradiology, nuclear radiology, vascular radiology, and diagnostic radiology. Neuroradiology, uses CT scans and MRI’s to diagnose abnormalities in the nervous system. Nuclear radiology, requires the use of radioactive materials for the treatments of diseases. Vascular and Interventional Radiology (VIR), use minimally invasive techniques for the treatment of certain

Radiology Technologist have been around for almost a century. “Radiology Technologist works in various places taking diagnostic imaging examinations for patients, which are x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, and mammography.” (eHow) This job is one of the few in the world that can give the risk of cancer to the rad-techs. And is stilled one of the most needed in the medical field. Radiology Technologist needs to understand computers and what the x-rays show, and how to set up a patient for and x-ray to be taken. Radiology Technologist are one of the highest paid in the medical field. This is because the job has more risk than any other job in the medical field. The radiology technologists have used x-rays for what has almost been in use

MRI Technicians also known as a radiologic technician, give image scans on patients to produce quality images of designated areas of the body. Becoming a MRI Technician isn’t a hard process but finding a place to work may be a challenge. The following information will show you how to achieve your goal of becoming a MRI Technician, or maybe you just wanna know the steps to becoming one.

If you asked me two years ago while I was in high school what career I would like to pursue I would have no idea. Today, I have found something I am passionate about and that is Radiologic Technology. Being an athlete for thirteen years, I have had my fair share of injuries leading me to X-rays and MRI’s. The human body really sparked my interest, but every career learning and teaching others about the human body wasn’t for me until I found Radiology Technology.

The medical field is quite vast in its selection of job careers even within the same job you can be many different titles while doing the same thing. One of the careers I had chosen was to be a radiologist. Radiologists are physicians who use cutting-edge imaging technology to examine organs and tissues inside the body in gentle, noninvasive ways. Their expertise in

Radiologists is a challenging career that allows me the opportunity to help and maintain good health of my surrounding and community. The Radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x-rays, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography, and ultrasound. To begin a career in radiology is very interesting and hard because of the number of tasks and pressure is required to be verified by a radiologist. From a young age, I’ve always hated the electronic game system, but I’ve always been interested in how the technology works and how it has brought so much impact on our life especially the hospital technology. Growing up in the village in Nepal technology was very rare, and hospital system was very unorganized.

Everyday scans help save millions of lives, but radiologists make sure those scans are read correctly to ensure correct treatments are properly received. Radiologists are medical physicians who specialize in diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques. Radiologists use techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and x-ray. Radiologists interept medical scans in order to make a diagnosis so that the patient can receive proper medical treatment.

It embodies those qualities that geared me to become a physician. Ought most importantly, Radiology is intellectually challenging. The radiologist must coalesce his complete clinical knowledge across the different organ systems of human body, combined with all available patient history and findings to transmute pictures into a reasonable meaningful diagnosis. Secondly, I believe the radiologist must possess highest communication skills and team work. The radiologist has become a fulcrum point to the modern team based medicine, working closely with the internists, surgeons and other specialists to precisely diagnose and treat patients. The radiologist is also about trust. As the modern technologies have provided the specialists with an unparalleled power to image the human body, at the same time it has become increasingly complex and difficult for most of the experienced clinicians to interpret the finding in a useful manner from what is otherwise just an unfathomable collection of pictures. Radiologists are trusted to use the potentially lethal radiation to precisely localize areas of anatomical anomaly and abnormalities, and provide differential diagnosis. Finally, in radiology the boundaries of modern medicine ate protracted with the applications of modern technologies in diagnostic modalities and progressively in therapeutic ones. It is truly exciting to witness and be a part of this modern medicine

Based on my strong assessment report I got radiologic technician as my top occupation and I’m interested to learn more about it. The types of knowledge that is needed is providing customer service, diagnose and treat human injuries, structure of English language, computer hardware, and physics. Some crucial skills needed for a Radiologic Technician is active listening, giving information effectively, reading comprehension, social perceptiveness, writing effectively, and having technology skills. The work environment is indoors and the activities are assisting people, working directly to the public, getting information, updating new knowledge relevant to this job, and communicating with supervisors by telephone. A Radiologic Technician relates

A radiologist is a medical specialist, who has had specific postgraduate training in performing and interpreting diagnostic imaging tests and interventional procedures or treatments that involve the use of X-ray, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging equipment. Radiologists are trained to assist other doctors and specialists to treat their patients by making a diagnosis and providing treatment using medical imaging. Radiologists have the medical knowledge to understand and explain your medical problem or symptom through the images or pictures that are taken of various parts of the inside of your body. The tree types of radiology are Diagnostic, Interventional, and Radiation oncology. The Diagnostic imaging uses plain X-ray radiology, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and nuclear medicine imaging techniques to obtain images that are then interpreted to aid in the diagnosis of disease.

First of all, I think dedication and having a passion for this career is very important. If you aren’t willing to go through the necessary schooling and training for this career then you will never make it because it is not going to be easy and it requires a lot of attention, time and studying. As for passion, if you do not enjoy the career you have chosen then you will not live a happy life. If you chose radiology just primarily for the money, you will definitely struggle and again, not be content with your job. This is kind of like the quote that says “if you love your job, you will never have to work a day in your life.” I believe that this is true. Communication is key! Communication is basically their job, they have to relay information from nurses to doctors to patients, and they do a lot of the communicating. When communicating with other doctors and patients, you have to know what you are saying and know how to say it. An example would be, if you are “breaking bad news” to a patient in regards to their x-ray, it is recommended that you are professional yet empathetic when communicating. Also, we have talked about this in class as well but with today’s technology, it is very important to know how to compose a professional email because that is a big part of communication especially in a large

In third grade was the first time I had ever had an x-ray taken. I was mesmerized by the ability of the doctors to look at my bones through a hug machine attached to the ceiling, however I was terrified. The radiologic technologist calmed me down and distracted my attention of my broken bone by explaining the process of taking an x-ray. Ever since that day, I have wanted to be a radiologic technician to have the ability to impact patient’s life like she did mine. I want a career where I can further my education, expand my experience, and help the world around me.