Experiences

Question 1

Charity shop

Answer 1

• working with customers - being professional
• importance of being on time - punctuality
• speaking to a range of different people e.g. elderly, young
• radiologists speak to a variety of people

Question 2

Netball

Answer 2

• leadership skills
• hone leadership skills to teach younger years netball
• teamwork, how to lead a team
• resilience
• hard work

Question 3

British red cross

Answer 3

• emergency can happen anywhere, although you wouldn’t generally need to respond to emergencies, you’d be prepared
• talk about how it taught teamwork - work as a team, share responsibility + communicate clearly

Question 4

NCS

Answer 4

• meeting new people
• teamwork
• building on communication skills

Question 5

Medical work experience in acute medical unit

Answer 5

• built on empathy + reassurance, when speaking with a patient
• learnt communication is vital
• working as a team is vital
• able to step out of my comfort zone
• acute medical unit is where patients go before they go onto an actual ward, there’s lots of uncertainty - links to diagnostic radiography in that patients go to a diagnostic radiography when not having being given a diagnosis yet - link to radiotherapy in that patients already have been given a diagnosis - I find myself interested in being able to contribute to finding and helping with the diagnosis of a patient