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Summary: In Texas, radiology technicians are required to complete four to five years of schooling at a diagnostic radiology residency from any number of major teaching hospitals. Attend radiology training programs at Texas Tech, Texas A&M or Baylor University with information from a diagnostic radiologist in this free video on radiology technician education.
Chris Looney is a diagnostic radiologist at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo. Looney has seven post-graduate years of radiologist training and has been a radiologist...read more
"My name is Chris Looney, I'm a diagnostic radiologist here at Heartland Hospital in St. Joseph, MO. 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. Covers all of the imaging modalities like I mentioned, CT, MR, ultrasound, nuclear medicine as well as things like interventional radiology, neuroradiology, etcetera. If your a medical student looking for a diagnostic radiology residency in Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Baylor, there are several cities that offer radiology technology schools. Houston and Dallas, those are all specific to the area of the state of Texas. 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."
eHow Article: Radiology Technician Schools in Texas