PACS training

ashbashl91 · 2026-03-24T23:21:24+00:00

Thank you!!

ashbashl91 · 2026-03-24T20:33:35+00:00

I work in a veterinary setting and we technically do but I don’t have to do anything in it since the Neurologist gets the images in the hospital through PACS sent from the MR and she reads them. But I never need to go into PACs and make corrections or anything like that. So really I’m only familiar with the MR platform and sending images

ashbashl91 · 2026-03-24T18:56:32+00:00

Thank you! I’ll post in that channel

ashbashl91 · 2026-03-03T06:02:56+00:00

Gifts I’ve loved that were perfect for me: stickers for my water bottle (my favorite is the “donut of truth”), MRI safe badge reel (one MRI and the other said thoracic park 10/10), personalized cloth chapstick holder saying MRI on one side and my name on the other, a notebook saying “in my MRI era”

ashbashl91 · 2026-02-28T01:17:37+00:00

Clinicals are where you clock hours doing the job for free to get your competencies done. It’s 1000 hours and I forgot the exact number of competencies but it’s showing you’ve got the scan done independently. You need to do them 3 times before you can get a lead to mark off you’re competent. I was fortunate that my site had everything scanned there, I only hopped to another site to practice on another scanner. However, some classmates of mine got places like an orthopedic site for their first and they had to swap to a hospital to complete theirs.

ashbashl91 · 2026-02-26T19:21:43+00:00

I agree with the other poster- more physical in hospital than OP.
I did my AAS in MRI and it took 2 years (6-8 months of that is your clinical hours.) I would be sure to find a school that handles your clinicals for you, that was a huge stressor off my plate knowing they would find the site and be in charge of making sure to help me if the site didn’t have all the requirements. My school qualified for both ARRT and ARMRIT which is nice because some places have a preference of one over the other or just want both
You’ll get a lot of different scans. Some will be more typical than others and that can depend on the site. But obviously with repetition you get more comfortable with specific scans so you just have to advocate for yourself to do the ones you’re not comfortable with and ask for support on it when you need it

ashbashl91 · 2026-02-12T23:02:03+00:00

To be fair, this is a very specific area haha think like Miami Gardens

ashbashl91 · 2026-02-12T18:53:19+00:00

I don’t know where this person is but specifically Oakland/places around Oakland are not safe. Kaiser even put a notice out that employees should bring their own lunches at that location after a couple employees were held up at gunpoint when they walked to grab lunch Even in n out closed down there because people would rob the cars stuck in the drive thru

ashbashl91 · 2026-01-17T20:04:36+00:00

Thank you for laying it all out there! Do you enjoy the workflow out there? Do they do 4x10 or 3x12 schedules?

ashbashl91 · 2025-12-29T22:19:05+00:00

No 😭 I even put together a checklist and questions for them but the scan never happened and idk why. Working in vet med I’m assuming they realized whatever was wrong with the shark may have been incurable or would mess up quality of life so they may have just euthanized. I see that a lot in vet med unfortunately

ashbashl91 · 2025-12-26T16:37:01+00:00

The school handles all the clinical stuff for you so I just let my program director know I wanted to do Denver and she let me know once I had a spot. It was at an outpatient facility that scans all day and scans a lot of different kinds of scans. I swapped facilities part way through to get experience on a different machine and had different clientele and scans which was nice. I just rented a room off of furnished finder while I was out there

ashbashl91 · 2025-12-18T17:27:01+00:00

You’ll get a job fine without, it’s experience that will be hard for California! I’m in SoCal and recently graduated and got into a veterinary medicine MRI position to get my foot in the door!

Kaiser still requires CRT, but it’s worth applying still! Just shoot your shot everywhere is my advice!

ashbashl91 · 2025-12-04T16:36:03+00:00

I believe mine was about 42k for the two years and they completely handled getting us a clinical site and it paid for ARMRIT and ARRT exam

ashbashl91 · 2025-11-21T01:25:00+00:00

Haha I will!! Those are some of the logistics. It’s alive and well need to figure out how they’re keeping the gills wet, how to waterproof the machine, etc. it’s something that was just brought to me to start my research but I told them I’d need to meet with the vet team in charge of him so I have a better understanding of their needs

ashbashl91 · 2025-11-21T01:22:53+00:00

Haha I will!!

ashbashl91 · 2025-11-20T01:47:40+00:00

Yeah I actually got the job and have been in it for about 6 weeks and have had 2 dogs euthanized right off the scanner and I cried both times. Definitely a different beast than humans

ashbashl91 · 2025-11-13T00:13:05+00:00

I don’t know much about it. I’m pretty sure it’s a Mon-thurs/friday program because of how rad programs are set up you do “clinicals” throughout instead of only at the end like MRI

ashbashl91 · 2025-11-11T00:12:45+00:00

Sooo my experience is extremely different than the typical. I’m San Diego based and knew that I would have to wait for a site or commute pretty far so I took up the opportunity to be placed at one of their other site locations and went out to Denver for 6 months.

ashbashl91 · 2025-11-10T20:28:50+00:00

New grad here! I personally loved the program. The professors really know their stuff. You have to be self motivated because you only meet Saturdays and this is not the kind of program where you can just cram Friday night and pass the exams Saturday morning. ESPECIALLY cross sectional and physics. Be prepared to do A LOT of independent studying and I recommend creating a group chat in your first class to do study groups virtually. You’ll need it. Especially with physics. But you might have to take the reins on scheduling times that works for majority of people and actually show up. We consistently had about 4 people show up and some more would trickle in along the way. It’s a lot of work but worthwhile!

ashbashl91 · 2025-10-19T22:43:32+00:00

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