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EP. 87 Why "You'll Learn in Time" Is Bad CT Advice · Cat Scan Guru Podcast

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  Hello, hello, welcome back everybody.
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  Welcome back to the podcast. So glad to get you guys back in
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  and just enjoying this beautiful strange weather.
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  I'm not sure what's up with it, but usually at this time in the
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  Midwest is, you know, covered in snow, which, you know, I think
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  global warming has a lot to do with what's going on.
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  So a little bit of housekeeping. If you didn't catch the last
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  episode, make sure you guys check out the last episode
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  because it was a really good one.
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  I had talked about the four CT protocol protocols guide that I
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  have just released a couple weeks ago and it has been a hit
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  in the CT community. I know 24 hours that I released
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  it, 10 people purchase the the guide.
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  So let me kind of give you a rundown of what is included in
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  this guide. So basically I have designed
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  this guide for new CT technologists and even brand new
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  travelers. Like if you're new to traveling,
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  this will help you at whatever site you're at.
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  So disclaimer, this is not to replace your site's protocol
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  book or anything of that sort. This is merely a reference to
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  use along with your training and it does not replace any site
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  specific protocols or radiologist recommended
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  protocols or recommendations. OK.
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  This is merely a reference and it is stated that in the sky.
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  So what I did was as I got my little brain together and all
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  the notes that I have written down, all the clinical
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  experience that I have and just all the protocols I've used
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  throughout the years and combined it into the sky.
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  So I give you 10 of the most common CT exams and protocols
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  that we execute every single day and put it together in this
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  guide. I've also got a few pages in the
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  beginning as far as patient centering tips, contrast what
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  happens if something goes wrong. So all that is entailed into
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  this guide. So if you want a little short
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  video of it, make sure you check out TikTok.
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  I'll link that video in the show notes so you guys can check that
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  out. OK, so you can get this guide in
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  two different versions. So there's a the digital version
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  and then there's a physical version.
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  Both of them do include two courses. 1 is a common CT exams
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  and protocols. The second one is a contrast
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  media of course. Then you will also get a bonus
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  10 episode audio series, the CG tech cheat code along with your
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  purchase of the guide. So digital version is 4499 and
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  the physical version of it including all that stuff is
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  5499. So if you're interested in that
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  link in the show notes, go check it out.
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  Go get yours today. Also make sure you follow on
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  TikTok. I go ahead and breakdown more
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  protocols YouTube channel. There is a lot more educational
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  videos going up where I will be dissecting protocols one by one
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  and also doing some CT registry review educational material as
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  well because that has been highly requested.
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  So make sure you check all that out.
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  Everything is in the show notes so you can go subscribe and
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  follow on TikTok. So in today's episode, I am
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  going to be talking about why the term that is used and I hear
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  this all the time. You will learn what time is bad
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  CT advice. Now, I have heard this probably
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  more than once in my entire career where I've heard other
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  technologists say in time you'll just learn it.
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  And I'm going to explain to you why this is bad advice, and I
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  don't think this is advice that you should listen to.
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  So the reason I feel that this is bad advice is because I am
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  calling out all the lazy teaching masks as encouragement
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  and training. Listen, I know that's going to
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  trigger the fuck out of some of you, but hear me out.
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  Stay with me and listen, OK? You and I both know that there
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  are technologists out there that exist in many facilities that
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  just don't know how to train people properly.
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  I can tell you that one of the techs that I work with know
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  somebody that is like this. OK, So I am calling out all the
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  lazy teaching because when you are teaching new technologists
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  lazy ways of how to do things in cookie cutter training and
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  button pushing techniques, you mask this as encouragement,
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  which it doesn't encourage. They don't learn anything out of
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  that, OK. And especially when you just say
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  push this button, push that button, and the technologists
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  ask you why we're executing that the way we do or why we're
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  pushing that contrast as quickly as we are.
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  What kind of anatomy are we looking at?
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  And your response is what? I don't know.
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  We're just the tech. We're not the radiologist.
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  I hate that fucking answer every single time because I miss the
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  days where radiologists, you can walk into the reading room and
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  they would actually teach you something because now a lot of
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  them read remotely and they just don't want to have the time or
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  don't want to bother when it comes to that, which that's an
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  entirely different different episode.
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  So the problem that I see is that time doesn't fix confusion
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  without structured training. OK with time isn't going to fix.
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  Oh well. I'm confused about APE study on
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  why it didn't turn out or I'm confused on why we need a
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  certain access the way we do. I'm confused on why we have to
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  wait 65 seconds for an abdomen and pelvis with contrast CT.
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  OK, when you have a system setup or a department setup where your
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  training is structured, your texts are knowledgeable, they
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  can go ahead and get those people trained in 8 to 12 weeks
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  time to go ahead and operate on their own.
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  Time doesn't fix that. OK.
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  It's making sure that you do a lot of repetition and making
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  sure that you do things right the first way.
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  Making sure you practice those exams, making sure you ask the
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  right questions. OK, so I'm sorry, but time isn't
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  going to fix how confused you are.
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  Or you'll just learn with time. It's all bullshit.
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  You have to have a structured training program or a structured
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  training like checklist or something in your facility to
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  make sure that those new technologists that are
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  transitioning know exactly what they're doing.
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  OK, here's the other thing. You're waiting to feel
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  confident. That's a big one.
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  The only way that you're going to feel confident is by
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  practicing and repping petition. It's not about ego.
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  It's not about this or thinking that you know everything.
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  It is about making sure that you have practice under your belt
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  and repetition of those exams and those exams are going to
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  feel very boring and convoluted. However, when you practice and
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  you have repetition over and over and over and over again,
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  you're going to be a better technologist and you're going to
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  excel. Now here's another one that I
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  come across. Fear of making mistakes.
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  Listen, you have to remember we're all human.
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  Humans make mistakes, OK? And as long as, you know,
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  acknowledge your mistake and you're accountable and what can
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  I do to not repeat this mistake? That is what's going to make all
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  the difference. I gotta tell you how many times
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  I've called a radiologist and said, you know what?
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  I screwed up. I didn't do the without on the
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  CTA head, which we know at our facility because this is our
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  protocol that we have to do it without before we do the with
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  contrast. And I admit and I just say, hey,
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  do you want me to bring patient back?
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  Like after an hour, 2 hours, you know, and sometimes 9 times out
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  of 10, they're like, you know what?
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  I don't really think I need it. So no.
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  So acknowledging your mistake, you know, taking accountability
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  for your mistake and making sure that you understand what you
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  need to do next time to not repeat the mistake is super
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  duper important. OK, now comparing yourself to
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  more experienced texts. You cannot compare yourself to
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  other experienced texts because I work in a department where
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  there's like roughly around 30 technologists, okay?
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  I mean, we are a very large department with five CT
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  scanners. The thing is, is that all of our
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  experience come from different places.
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  We were all taught differently. But The thing is, is when we
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  execute exams, it's the same result, OK?
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  So you cannot compare yourself to, you know, Susan, who can
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  whoop out APE study in seconds versus Sally who has to take
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  like an extra 5 to 10 minutes to get it right.
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  You can't compare yourself because everybody's learning
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  curve is different. Everybody's speed is different.
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  So you can't go at the speed of a tech who's been scanning for
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  30 years versus a tech who's been scanning for two.
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  You have to stop comparing yourself.
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  You have to shape yourself into your own, you know, person, into
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  your own type of technologists that you want to be.
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  You can't compare yourself to others, OK, Because they've had
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  other training, they do things maybe a little bit differently.
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  So you cannot compare yourself to other technologists, OK?
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  Comparison is not a good thing. And I've seen that so many times
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  in different facilities that I've worked out that they're
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  trying to compare themselves to other technologists when a lot
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  of times, you know, they don't have the same knowledge or the
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  training that you're trying to compare yourself to.
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  You have to educate yourself in a way that you understand, that
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  you are able to grasp and that you go at your own speed and you
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  develop your own experience. You cannot compare yourself to
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  other people. It's just it's not going to
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  work. OK.
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  So what I see is that there's a lot of time wasted, OK, new
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  technologists feel very behind when the right framework, the
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  right structure, training the right things could have been
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  implemented from the beginning or even sooner.
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  A big take away is, is that in CTI feel there is a huge
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  disservice because the way we learn CT is not like it is when
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  you go to X-ray school. X-ray school is structured.
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  You have clinicals, you have a clinical instructor, you have
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  disc. What I see a lot of programs is
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  this, you don't really have a clinical instructor that is
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  there on the site all the time while you're doing it.
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  It's like, OK, you go to the clinical site and they rely on
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  the technologists that are there to train you.
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  And I think that's where there is a big disservice because if
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  that hospital isn't set up correctly to making sure that
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  they're executing your training in the right way, it could be a
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  huge disservice to you. OK.
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  So my take away in this video is that when you have structure,
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  when you have a proper training process, even a checklist, when
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  you have those things in order, it does shorten the learning
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  curve that you're able to execute those exams like you're
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  supposed to and you're able to learn and grasp the concept a
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  little bit easier. Sometimes people grasp it a lot
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  faster, sometimes people need a little bit more time, but at
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  least it makes the learning curve easier and for you to
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  grasp the concept of CTE with all its complexities in a much
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  easier your way. So that is what I have for you.
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  As far as today's episode, hopefully that was a little bit
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  insightful. So if you want a copy of the
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  core CT protocols guide, make sure you check out the show
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  notes. So there's two versions of it, a
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  physical and a digital version and go get your guide today.
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  Also follow on TikTok where I, you know, talk about all the CT
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  things and subscribe to the YouTube channel.
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  Make sure you subscribe to this podcast so that you can get the
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  latest episodes when I go ahead and release them.
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  Thank you so much for joining me in this episode and I will chat
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  with you guys in the next episode.
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  Yes, Carl.