Fall Semester Reflection Questions:

1. In your summer reflection, you were to identify your greatest concern about the Fall

semester. Was that perceived concern a factor for you this semester? If so, how did you

overcome it? What unforeseen difficulties did you face, and how did you cope with

those?
a. My greatest concern for the Fall of 2017 was about Jackies positioning class.

Jackies class I came to realize that I had to focus on the images as well as reading

as understanding the red evaluation criteria boxes for each position. I overcame

this issue by reading the box, practicing on myself, buying a skeleton (luckily it

was during Halloween) as well as using Quizlet. I also saw the difficulty in the

lab. The unforeseen difficulty was positioning a person who is not all boney,

meaning that their bones do not pop out as easily as others. I cope with this

difficulty by practicing on different peers in the class as well as my friends

outside of the class.

2. Now that you have had more classes (imaging, equipment, positioning, etc.), write a

paragraph explaining how these courses are starting to relate to one another and how they

relate to courses youve already taken.

a. Imaging and the physics course correlate with one another because of the

understanding about how one thing can cause an effect on another. Such as the

inverse square law, as distance increases the intensity decreases. So you would

need to increase the kVp or mAs to help compensate the loss of the photons

penetration or quantity. With the basic positioning class, this go back with

sectional anatomy since in that course, I did not understand how the images were
 taken as well as how to perceive the images. Health Law course fall in hand with

the Radiobiology class since in radiobiology we had discussed about the different

max dose absorptions are for different situations such as a pregnant worker can

declare and undeclared her pregnancy at any time.

3. What concepts are you struggling to understand? How do you plan to bridge the gaps

going forward?
a. The concept I hope to understand are the different degrees for each position of the

body as well as the different dosage. I plan on overcoming this dilemma by using

notecards as well as Quizlet and studying them over the break so that I will would

not forget.