(radiology Prep) What Actions (job Experience) Should I Take Before Entering Programs In The Radiology Field?
It is asked in the Baylor University @ Dallas to provide prior health related (radiology) job experience to apply for the radiology program there. I’m not sure if I want to apply for that one, or one at Midwestern State University, or the one at Brookhaven of the Dallas Community College System. About 6 months is recommended and I have never worked in the health field. I don’t plan on applying in those programs until about 1.5 to 2 years from now, so I have plenty of time to look over my options. But since I am considering them, I want to know what would be a good way to get my foot through the door in that health field. I have seen people in scrubs at school, and I always that that in order to get a job at a hospital or clinic you have to first be certified. I’m wondering what I should attempt to do. There is a local hosp. in 15 miles.
Right now, I’m a full-time college student @ Navarro, a local community college majored in Pre-Med.
Any help or advice is appreciated, Thanks.
I am also in the Radiology Field, finished all my classes now have to wait til next year for clinicals to have a spot for me, I tried and tried to get in at a hospital as like an X-ray assistant, or anything to get my foot in, didn’t work. Then I volunteered at the hospital for free, and did that for 6 months. People got to know me there and then I applied for a part time job, since it was all that was open in the stock room, and finally got it. I am learning all the instruments and film and stuff that is ordered, and after 6 more months they said they would hook me up with a job as a Radiology Assistant.