Video Transcript

Host:
Question: What was the hardest either class or just part of the education process to become an X-ray tech for you?

Farrel:
Answer: I was required to take anatomy and physiology before I even got into the X-ray program. That was a lot. But how do you physiology is broken up into two courses, and that’s basically you getting your basic overview of all the systems of the body muscles, organs, the endocrine system, bones. I might not be working with the adrenal glands at my current time, but it was still something that I was required to learn about.

Jennifer:
Answer: So anatomy, physiology, those two courses in and of themselves were very challenging, a lot of memorization. But then once I got into the X-ray program, probably the most challenging class for me was understanding how x-rays produced, because that’s something you actually have to know. You have to understand produce so that you can understand how your images is. So it’s not just like, oh, I’m going behind the want to go book and taking a picture. Actually, I understand. Like what I’m doing that it’s called a technique. It’s basically like your exposures. It’s like you taking a camera and light film and putting it in and then like setting your aperture and the lighting and everything like that. We basically have to do something like that in x ray, but it’s called We have our mass in our kVp and the two of those factors go together to produce an image. So that the proper density comes out, the proper contrast comes out. So learning all that and working it all in to be able to produce the proper image. Initially was challenging because it was like listening to a lot. Well, there’s a bunch of them. But the biological what happens to your cells and things like that. And then the pathology stuff was just mind blowing. Challenging but fascinating. Knowing all the pathologies was tough. Being able to look at an X-ray on a screen and decide what that could be makes you have a whole different level of respect for radiologists in the knowledge they have to have in their brain. That was hard. And as far as prerequisites go, I hated statistics. They made me take statistics and I hated it. And then like all those other silly classes, like writing papers for English and it’s like, I just want to be an x ray tech why are we doing?

Jenna:
Answer: The general consensus for me and my peers was radiographic physics. That’s usually the one that’s the most far fetched. Everything else is kind of can picture it, you can piece it together. The anatomy of the body can kind of, you know, touch your elbow and say, oh, this is that bone in the elbow. You really can’t do that with physics. So that was probably the one that required the most studying, although it’s not really your typical all math, physics course. It really has a lot to do with the production of x-rays and the different components within the X-ray unit. So I did find that interesting. So interesting in fact, that now I teach stenographic physics, so I ended up really liking it. I think it just depends on what you find interesting and that’s going to really make or break what your hardest courses. You know, anatomies are really not your thing. Those probably shouldn’t be your field, but I think it just depends what you have the most interest in That’s going to make that course, the easiest.