06-18-2011 week

This week I am going 16 hours to St Joe's and 24 hours at JCL-North Mountain. I love learning about hight risk OB. Beth and Ana are very useful and they let me scan as much as possible.

6-11-11 week

My last week of 40 hours/week at JCL-North Mountain. Next week I will start at St Joe's Outpatient Center, for my OB rotation. I am looking forward to scanning pregnant women.
This week I worked more with the techs on getting better at all exams. I love going to the hospital on Saturdays, since I see more OB cases, and other unusual cases, like a TRUS prostate, and interesting pelvic cases.

6-4-11 week

We had one day off for Memorial Day on Monday and the rest of the week I was at JCL-North Mountain. I worked a lot on interventional cases: paracentesis, thoracentesis, and FNA's.

5-28-11 week

This was my first week of 40 hours/ week at the hospital. I got to see and do a lot of cases, mostly renal, abdomen, venous studies.

Two weeks off

We had two weeks off until 5-23-11. I took the opportunity to study for the SPI exam. My examination is scheduled on 5-31-11 at 8am. I managed to pass the exam on my first try with a score of 94%.

5-6-11 week

This was the last week of school, before our two weeks off. We had finals this week in school, and two days of clinicals. In clinicals I work more on my protocol on Venous Legs, trying to perfect the sequence of images that I take for the radiologist.

04-29-2011 week

This week we completed all the material on DMS 130, and we are getting ready for the final. Our last case study is about the prostate cancer, and we are trying to find some time to complete that assignment as well. In clinicals I am trying to get as much scanning time, but at times I find it to be difficult to scan, because the department is quite busy. Today I performed couple of paracentesis exams, and I assisted with others. I sure hope to get hired at the end of my rotation.

04-22-2011 week

This week I have started scanning carotid exams. I find them challenging, and I will need more practice. In school, we studied more fetal abdomen in the DMS 130 class, and Doppler in physics.
I am studying for the upcoming finals and I have to organize my time wisely so I can get all the studying done on time.

04-15-11 week

This week we started to study Doppler effect in school ,an we had a lab outside, studying the effect with all of us lined up on the lawn.
At the clinical site, I was able to comp on the testicular study, which is rare, at our site. I still have to comp on the breast and all the OB. I started doing a lot of invasive procedures, like paracentesis and thoracentesis.

04-08-11 week

This week I learning to scan carotid exams at the clinical site. I find it challenging to align the vessels, and obtain a good Doppler signal. I know it takes practice and I am willing to try it again, and get better at it.
I school, we studied fetal head and brain. I can't wait to go to an OB site so I can scan OB cases.