2-25-11 week

This week was a busy one, even without school on Monday. I feel overwhelmed with so many school projects and not enough time to study. At the hospital I started scanning venous legs and I am working on developing my own routine and order of images. I love what I do and where I am at, the techs are impressed with my attitude of trying new things and they encourage me to scan more. I hope to get better at the venous studies, since we get so many of them.

02-18-2011 week

This week in clinicals I got to scan more. The techs have been trusting me more, and I have been scanning abdomen and renal studies. I enjoy being at John C Lincoln Medical Center because of all the interesting cases and the helpful techs. I work mostly with Earl, Amy and Kay, and they all been very kind to me and willing to teach me the ropes. The most interesting case I have seen was the renal vein thrombosis in an 80 year old female. I did not find it, my preceptor found the pathology, but I scanned most of the other organs.

In the physics lab, we looked at the elevational resolution and we measured it by looking at dental floss in a bowl of water.

02-12-2011 week

I the physics lab, we measured for the lateral resolution, using an AIUM test object and we determined that it varies with the focus, depth, frequency and type of the transducer used.
This week was my first week at my new clinical rotation: John C Lincoln Medical Center. The drive was not as bad as I thought, and the employees are very nice. The techs that I work with mostly are Earl, Amy and Kay. The most interesting case that I got to see was a craniotomy in the OR. We placed the hockey stick transducer, right on the brain, after a piece of skull was removed, and we imaged the tumor, that was right underneath the pia mater. It was very interesting, and I would like to see more of these cases.

Feb 4th 2011 clinical week

I completed another week at SMIL, and I learned that I will be moved to another clinical site, because SMIL asked for just one student. I will be going to John C Lincoln Medical Center, probably starting next week. I am looking forward to learning how to scan the inpatient patient population, and all of the acute ER patients. I embrace this change and I will do my best at learning quickly the protocols, and all the tech preferences.