<p>Hey everyone,
I'm thinking about going into radiology. I'm in 11th grade and was wondering what I should be focusing on right now. Obviously I should work on the sciences, should I take Calculus before Collage, or is math not as important? </p>
<p>Also, does anyone know of how I could find out more about this exciting field?<br>
Are there any 'camps' for like medicine? </p>
<p>Anyone have a opinion on the National Youth Leadership Forum for Medicine?
I am home schooled, so is there anything else I should be aware of? </p>
<h1>1 priority is getting into the right college for you.</h1>
<p>Then worry about the pre-med requirements, then the MCAT, then getting into medical school, then your pre-clinical course work, USMLE step 1 (if they still have the steps when you enter med school), then your third year clerkships, then you can worry about radiology.</p>
<p>In other words, focus on the step in front of you.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity...because I'm on a radiology rotation right now (and find it utterly dull), what do you think a radiologist does? and what makes it exciting? Maybe if I know what the appeal is, I'll be a little bit more excited about something other than the fact that I get to go home at noon every day...</p>
<p>I think you may have too much personality for radiology. The three people I know who are currently in radiology residencies either don't like to interact with people or aren't very good at it and are not very social in nature....just wondering if there is a correlation here????.....could explain why you're bored as well.</p>
<p>Oh wow....I just caught that the OP was home schooled.....hmmmmm</p>
<p>Thanks for the compliment. That may be it. The residents have been prone to miss a number of teachable moments, and most of the attendings have taken the approach that "what you should really get out of this rotation is not to read films, but to know what it is that you are ordering". </p>
<p>There are several people in my class going towards rads and most do fit your assessment...there's one guy with plenty of personality though. It's just that no one wants to be around him because of it. ;)</p>
<p>I was really thinking about radiology and the three I know (all male) would certainly not qualify as "glamorous" in any way....LOL....pathologists, on the other hand, are a whole other story....</p>
<p>Well from what I understand is that the Radiologist has to look through hundreds of images and try to discover what is wrong/not wrong with the patient and then send the results back to the doctor. They also seem to be on the cutting edge of imaging and technology. I'm very good with computers and think that Radiology blends the fields together nicely (medicine and technology).
You are right though, I do like to have contact with people; don't you get to collaborate with the doctors?</p>
<p>Okay...yeah, that's pretty much it. They sit in a dark room and look at a computer screen. I know one woman who got through 3 months of radiology, hated that you never really knew what was in your stack of charts (might be 50 normal chest films and 50 normal head CT's, or there might be 45 normal chest films, a pneumothorax, a bowel perf, a subarachnoid hemorrhage, lung tumors and an endotracheal tube that's lodged in the right mainstem bronchus. She ended up switching over into Anesthesia.</p>
<p>There is some, a rather minimal amount, of collaboration with other physicians...mainly though, they'll just wait until you've dictated the report and then read that when it comes through. Unless if there's something emergent, then you might talk on the phone with them. They rely on you, but it's not like your hanging out together, sitting in the same room or running into each other on the wards.</p>
<p>Bottom line...worry about actual specialty when you've gotten to medical school. You'll have a much better idea of what you actually like and dislike at that point, instead of vague ideas about "medicine and technology".</p>