Recruitment

A part of my job all week has been recruiting for students to come into the program. SAIT was having an open house today which allows anyone to come and ask questions to the staff and students about the programs they have there. Here are some of the most common questions and some cool x-rays for everyone:

1. How hard is it to get into the x-ray program?

It is very hard. There are 350 qualified people who apply for the program and we only have 24 seats. Many people apply for a couple of years before they get in.

2. How dangerous are x-rays?

X-rays are dangerous. We train our students to be very radiation safety concious. That being said. Smoking one cigarette has a great chance of giving you cancer then one chest x-ray. And you get as much radiation on a flight from Vancouver to Toronto as you do in a chest x-ray. So generally the benefit outweighs the risk.

3. What's the difference between a regular x-ray and a CAT or CT scan?

Basically x-rays take 2 demensional images and CT scans take a cross section of your anatomy. CT's give alot more information (although a lot more radiation). Think of your body like a loaf of bread and we can slice it up and look at each piece of the bread.




4. Is this a good job?

I think it is a great job. If you like working with people. You are on your feet all day. There are a variety of areas in the hospital we work in (i.e. the Operating Room, emergency room) There are also lots of differnent area's you can branch into (i.e. CT, mammography). You make good money for a two year program and are very close to guarenteed a job when you are done, because most cities are in dire need of health care professionals.

Here are a couple of cool x-rays for you: Can you guess what they are or what makes them cool?






Till Tommorrow