Career Web Project featuring: Radiography

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Welcome to my site, I am Krissy Adkins and I want to inform about the wonderful career field of radiography. When starting college everyone encouragers you to do something, anything, in the medical field but what career will really make you happy. So I began to do research and weigh out all the careers in the medical field . To find the one I found most interesting, and since I found the idea of looking deep into a human body past the soft tissue as a challenge. I knew Radiology would be the career for me.

As a Radiologist you get a internal look inside the human body. Better know as an X-ray tech, a radiologist job is to look inside the human body past all the soft tissue and take photo graphs. With these photo graphs/x-rays a doctor is able to diagnose many medical problems.

Unlike many careers in the medical field you are not limited to just one job. As a radiologist you can specialize in different areas of radiography. Areas like computerized tomography (CT) or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The career ladder is very long and as long as you are willing to continue your education you can climb it up.

The salary is also a big influence not only do you get a job with a daily challenge you also can make about $40,000 a year. And with advancement and further education that amount only gets even larger. With most jobs in hospital or Radiography groups benefits are usually offered. With benefits comes the opportunity for part-time or full-time position, paid time off, and retirement.

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I have provided you with some links and reading material so that you can check out radiography more in-depth. I hope they are helpful. With most of the sites you can check out other careers also. Good luck with what ever career you choose, just remember to love what you do or you won’t want to do it.

http://www.mcctae.com http://www.jrcert.org

http://://www.aradnj.com/employment.html

http://www.sfcc.edu http://www.arrt.org

Reading material:

Appleton and Lange Radiography Prep By: Sasia

Pocket Radiologist By: Federle

First Aid for the Radiography Clerkship By: Stead

Merrill’s Atlas of Radiographic Positions By: Beckham

Very Personnel note:

My grand mother had breast cancer and lost both of her breasts. I never got to know her because she died of the cancer. My mother is 57 and has no sign of cancer. She gets mammography every year and thank god she is healthy. At first the idea of doing mammography scared me because I did not want to see what might happen to other women in my family or me. However, with all my research I am sure I want to do mammography and as a radiography that is a field I can specialize in. So, I am going to take the bull by the horns and have enough knowledge to help other women and myself. I will make a wonderful radiologist and I cannot wait to prove it.