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Is anyone a radiologist?
I am planning to go back to school in the fall and start taking some courses to get into a radiology program, (and application deadline is February 1). I was wondering if anyone was in the radiology field? I wanted to get a sense of the field such as what day to day is like, do you work in a hospital or clinic, etc. There are not a lot of schools in the area with this program, so it is very comptetive (ie 150 will apply, 28 get in).
I'd appreciate any insight, and hopefully someone here is in this field.
Edit: this is for a rad tech.
Re: Is anyone a radiologist?
Do you mean radiologist, IE someone who had their MD and goes on for extra training to become a radiologist (a physician who reads xrays and diagnoses?)
Or someone who actually takes the xrays?
I wasn't thinking of MD status for diagnosis, but more of technition who takes xrays. I know there are a number of different areas for this, like doing ultrasounds and CAT scans. The schools I am looking at don't appear to give too much information as to when you're done with the program what exactly you're trained to do, like just xrays. I guess the information I am reading is kind of confusing me.
Ok, just wanted to make sure. I'm not a rad tech, but MIL is. She graduated about 5 years ago. From what I've heard from her, the market is pretty saturated right now. She works 2 part time jobs, both in hospitals, because apparently she can't find a full time position. It kind of sucks for her because one job is daytime, one job is 3rd shift. Taking off holidays also apparently sucks, as in they have the schedule for Christmas decided like 3 years in advance and I guess she only gets Christmas off every three years or something crazy like that. Same crazy schedule if you work at a hospital as the RNs it sounds like. She also complains about all the crazy people they have to see.
But...you have to take it with a grain of salt since MIL likes to complain about things and make molehills into mountains. However, she isn't the only person I've heard of who has commented on the large demand for these types of jobs.
I might seek out a rad. tech in your area and ask what their opinion is - obviously the school is going to tell you that the job prospect is fantastic because they want you to enroll.
Thanks! The schools I am looking at actually have required/madatory info sessions for this major. I have already met with one school and plan to meet with a few others within the next few weeks. Now I know what questions I should be asking, but I honestly wasn't sure. The programs are highly competitve so they don't over saturate the area. But finding a job, obviously, is important when I am done. What I gathered is that you have to be in the field for a year before you go into a specialized field.
I started school for radiology tech. I quit after a year because it wasn't for me. As another post said the job field is very limited right now, but I was told like most jobs the demand for hiring comes in waves. It is predicted in 5 years there will be higher demand for rad. techs. (This is all what I was told in school idk if it is true or not).
For clinicals I did work in hospitals and in clinics. Hospitals you could be in the ER, general rooms, fluoro, surgery, or you could go to patient rooms to take x-rays. Most days in the hospital it is busy in the mornings and gets slower through out the day. The clinics are much slower. You pretty much sit around all day and wait for people to come in who need x-rays. In a day you could have 10 x-rays or you could have 0. It really depends.
The actual course work for school can be very difficult. Classes consist of stuff like physics, biology, pathology, and positioning. It is a lot of memorization and practice.
That is all I can think of right now. Once again, my knowledge is limited because I only went through the program for a year. If you have any more questions feel free to PM me. Hope this helps!