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EP. 72 Why Shadowing Isn't Training · Cat Scan Guru Podcast

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  Hello, hello everybody. Hi, welcome back to the CAT Scan
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  Guru podcast. I am so excited that I am back
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  recording episodes again. So it has been a wild ride, OK?
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  And I'm just going to get into all the things that have
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  happened since my previous episode and just kind of, you
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  know, get you up to speed on what's going on and all the
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  exciting things that are going to happen.
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  OK, so First off, I had to take a little bit of a break.
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  I know I took a little bit of a break earlier this year.
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  I needed to take another break because my children, you know,
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  are now back in school and things are really ramping up and
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  I've had to make some really tough decisions, you know,
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  career wise, as far as business wise and things like that.
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  So, and I'm trying to kind of navigate life.
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  My relationship that you guys have heard me talk about on the
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  podcast did end. Fortunately, I still very much
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  care about this person and regardless if he listens to this
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  or not, who knows? It's been a very difficult
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  situation. So I kind of had to take a step
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  away and just kind of regroup myself and get myself in a good
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  headspace so I can continue doing the things that I love.
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  So those are kind of the things that have been happening.
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  So of course, this podcast did get a nice rebrand.
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  So change the name of, you know, direction a little bit more
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  spicy and just diving into all the CT content.
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  So one thing I will mention is is that make sure you follow on
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  TikTok because I am starting to do more protocol videos.
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  Make sure you follow the YouTube channel, subscribe to the
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  YouTube channel because I'm starting to put some really long
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  form content and just diving into making sure that you guys
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  have awesome resources and protocols and things like that
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  to navigate your training and your career in CT.
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  So make sure you guys check those out.
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  OK? All my TikTok videos, I do go
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  ahead and repurpose them to Instagram.
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  So make sure you follow on Instagram as well.
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  So check all that stuff out because I am coming out with
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  some new material. So I have come out or I do have
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  a new platform. I do have three courses that are
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  available to you. All my courses are very
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  affordable to everybody. I do have a 10 episode audio
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  series too. So it's the CT tech cheat code.
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  You can dominate training. You can listen to all that on
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  the go. You can even listen to the
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  courses on the go. So if you're interested in any
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  of that, link is below where you can go ahead and get those
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  courses available to you. So like I said, they're very
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  affordable for everybody. It's not a heavy lift.
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  So and I do have them in my school community that is a paid
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  community. So make sure you guys check that
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  out. OK, so one of the other things
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  that is happening as well is, is that I have posted a video today
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  on TikTok. Make sure you go check it out
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  that I am kind of doing some more lifestyle healing journey
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  kind of content because I kind of sprinkle it in on my CT page.
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  But what I've decided to do is I've decided to divide it and
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  start a new TikTok page. So as soon as that is ready to
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  go, I will go ahead and post that for you on my TikTok
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  platform and on Instagram. So you guys know.
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  So I kind of decided to do that because I've gone through some
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  stuff and I'm also preparing to do the winter art starting
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  October 1st. And on this new page, I am going
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  to document that whole journey. So if you followed along on
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  TikTok last year, I did document that entire winter art journey
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  on my TikTok page where I got some fucking amazing results and
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  I accomplished what I set out to do.
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  And that was to get to a certain goal weight.
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  And I hit that weight. So and my physique has just
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  increased so much better in the gym and people are really
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  noticing it. So that makes it kind of right.
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  So make sure you check all that out and make sure you subscribe
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  and share it with somebody who needs to listen to it.
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  OK, now let's dive into today's episode because I love to make
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  my episodes very bite sized. So in today's episode, we're
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  going to be talking about why shadowing isn't training.
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  You're not clueless, you're just under trained.
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  OK, now imagine this. Have you ever walked into ACT
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  department and you're a brand new tech or you're a tech that
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  you know this is a new job and you feel like everybody else in
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  the department knows what they're doing except for you?
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  So just think about that for a minute.
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  Yes, I can tell you I've been there because I have changed
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  jobs over the years. And even at my current job, I
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  felt like a fish out of water because it was a bigger hospital
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  than I'm used to. There's a lot more higher
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  volumes that I'm used to and it just was really overwhelming.
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  But the one positive thing is, is that I could just sit and
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  scan on day one because of my experience, my training and just
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  the amount of years I've been scanning.
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  So what I want to tell you is, is that it's not you.
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  It's not, you know, anything that you did.
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  It's just this very convoluted broken system that is being used
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  to train new technologist. I know that's going to trigger
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  the fuck out of some of you, but that is the God honest truth.
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  OK. And on my podcast, I don't
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  gatekeep. I don't just censor.
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  I give it to you and I give it to you nice and raw and there
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  you go. So the real reason that new
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  technologists struggle in the 1st 90 days of their training is
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  because there isn't a system really set up.
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  There's not really like a checklist or like a dedicated
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  training program in departments. That's what I've noticed in my
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  experience. Now this may not be true for
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  your department, but I know in a lot of institutions that I've
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  been to, this is the common norm.
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  OK. And then the other thing is, is
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  some new technologists are paired up with experienced
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  technologists that let them shadow watch what they do.
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  You know, the C1 teach one, do 1.
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  I don't think that principle is really a good method, but to
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  each their own instead of really guiding them on how to perform
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  those exams correctly. And you know, what I find at
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  some places that I've worked at is some of those experienced
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  people don't know how to do them either.
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  And you're like, what the fuck? So that is like one of the other
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  reasons. And then another thing maybe is
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  that there's really not a structured training program for
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  them to follow. And then they give you 6 weeks
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  to go ahead and train, which is not enough, especially when you
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  have to learn the nitty and gritty and the hardcore exams
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  that we pump out every day. Hardcore exams, PE studies,
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  abdomen published with contrast, head without C, spine without,
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  facial without. You know, there's trauma
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  protocols, right? Just kind of name a fee.
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  So those are the things that that I think a lot of new
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  technologists struggle with, OK. And the whole thing about
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  learning on the job, now, this can be taken two ways.
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  I learned on the job, but then again, I also invested myself to
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  make sure that I know exactly how to execute these exams by
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  taking notes, you know, making sure that I suck the knowledge
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  out of technologists that were really good and making sure that
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  I read those protocols correctly.
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  You have to invest in yourself, OK?
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  Because CT is a learned skill, OK?
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  When taught the right way and not by watching, by shattering.
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  Like you actually have to do it. You have to sit in the captain's
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  chair and you have to fucking do it.
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  OK? Now there may be a case in point
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  where you get texts that refuse to train you.
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  So this is what I suggest you do.
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  Train and learn yourself. Write down notes, you know,
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  study exams on your downtime, make sure you write things down
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  and make sure you learn those protocols.
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  Flip through the protocol book, make a copy.
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  Whatever the case is, do that because sometimes you're going
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  to get places where they're going to give you minimal
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  training and then they're going to expect you to execute the
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  job. OK.
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  This is a very, very just convoluted, broken system.
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  We need more structured programs in the department.
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  I am not knocking CT programs because I know they have their
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  own clinical rotations, but I think when techs can't afford to
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  go to CT school and employers offered to train them on the
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  job, there needs to be some kind of structured program that is
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  available to them that is structured correctly and that
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  it's done correctly. OK now if you want all this,
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  make sure you grab the CT blueprint.
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  It's everything you wish you were taught.
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  There are three individual courses that I provide the
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  common exams and protocols where I give you all the common exams
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  and protocols and I break it down a course on contrast and
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  then the CT blueprint, which is a crash one O 1 course on just
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  some principles and elements that you need as a new
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  technologist. So you wish you were taller all
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  this. So make sure you click the link
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  below in the show notes to grab all that.
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  So that is it for this episode. I know it was short and sweet
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  giving you some updates. The next episodes from here on
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  out are going to be very punchy, very straight to the point, and
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  I'm going to make sure that you learn some shit, OK?
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  So make sure you follow on TikTok, follow on Instagram,
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  subscribe to the YouTube channel like share review.
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  Make sure you share this with a technologist that needs to hear
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  this. OK?
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  So thank you so much for joining me in this episode and I will
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  chat with you guys in the next episode.