Radiology Technician Schools

Series Summary

Careers in the medical field are vast and varied, ranging from physicians, nurses and surgeons to dentists, optometrists and speech pathologists. Requiring many years of intense education and training, medical careers are a lifelong pursuit, usually requiring not only a Bachelor's and Master's Degree, but also a doctorate in a specific field. Medical careers are ideal for the individual who holds a passion for helping and healing others in a very specified and personal way. In this free video series on medical careers, an experienced radiologist explains radiology technician schooling. Learn about the skills learned from a radiology residency and how long it takes to complete a program. Get information on radiology technician schools in Texas, California, Michigan and Georgia. Find out how much a radiologist and radiology technician can expect to make and how long it will take to reach the expected salary.

Video Transcript

"My name is Chris Looney, I'm a diagnostic radiologist here at Heartland Hospital in St. Joseph, MO. I went to medical school at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and then following medical school I did a internal medicine internship at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital in Las Vegas Nevada. Then I did a 4 year radiology diagnostic residency in Colombia, Missouri at the University of Missouri then I did a year of interventional radiology at Northwestern University in Chicago and I did a year of neuroradiology in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah. What a radiologist does, he's the physician,the medical doctor that interprets x-rays. We read cat scans, we read MRIs, ultrasounds and then regular x-rays that you would get if you hurt your foot. Diagnostic radiology residency is a 4 or 5 year program that is at maybe 50 major teaching hospitals in the United States that trains physicians in the area of radiology. It covers all of the imaging modalities like I mentioned, CT, MR, ultrasound, nuclear medicine as well as things like interventional radiology, neuroradiology, etcetera. Well in medical school, you learn about anatomy and physiology and disease process and medicines. Once you finish medical school and you're in a diagnostic radiology residency, your classes if you will, or your learning experience is based on the different imaging modalities to diagnose patients. Basically every patient that comes to a hospital comes through the radiology department whether you come through the emergency room from trauma or whether you come through the x-ray department because you have had a infection or a malignancy or if you are delivering a baby, everybody comes to radiology so the radiologist have to be trained in the imaging of every type of patient that comes to the hospital. Well thank you very much for watching, I hope you are all entertaining the idea of a career in medicine. Again this is Chris Looney, thank you very much."