Radiology Technician School in Los Angeles

Video Transcript

"My name is Chris Looney I'm a diagnostic radiologist here at Heartland Hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri. What a radiologist does, he's the physician, the medical doctor that interprets x-rays. We read Cat Scans,we read MRI's, ultrasounds, and then regular x-rays that you would get if you hurt your foot. Diagnostic radiology residency is a four or five year program that is at maybe fifty 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. If you are a medical student looking for a diagnostic radiology residency in the state of California, there are numerous programs. The University of California system whether it's at San Francisco, or UCLA or San Diego or Irvine or Davis all of these places have wonderful diagnostic radiology residencies. 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."