Just thought I’d post a little update on completing Radiology training (woohoo!) after a long absence during my 5 years of training.
It’s been a wild ride, and I’m thrilled to be working in such a fun profession – our job essentially is a difficult video game figuring out what’s wrong with someone, and putting together recommendations for other doctors on what might be the next best steps for the patient.
As you progress in Radiology, the funner it gets – it changes from being an awkward learning battle of not embarrassing yourself, to being a very fulfilling career of connecting the dots for a patient that no one else has yet made.
While I’m starting soon as a Radiologist at North Shore Hospital and Auckland Radiology Group before I do my 1 year Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellowship at Qscan in Brisbane starting March 2025, I’ve been having fun in my 1 week break playing around with different web tools.
I’ve tried a bunch of different AI SEO article creators and tools for our e-commerce website https://rivendellshop.co.nz/ to boost productivity of our marketing team’s article generation, and AI has certainly improved a tonne since I last explored this. Lots of these tools are mainly hype over substance admittedly, but trying out a lot and seeing which ones produced the best content and integrated the best with our Shopify website has been a nice
A lot of the tools make a range of websites very easy to build these days, and I thought I’d try another small project during my week off between training and starting as a radiologist. This was one that I thought would be helpful to both myself as a Radiologist, and for patients who would be even more confused by the landscape of Radiology in NZ – a New Zealand Radiology clinic directory.
There’s been a lot of new Radiology clinics in NZ over the last few years, and a lot of name changes too, that even radiologists have a hard time keeping up with what’s going on, let alone the public. This change is driven by massive growth in imaging with more people getting imaging as a more definitive part of their workup compared to clinical examination alone, with different sources having a range of 7-12% growth per year in imaging, and no signs of slowing down.
The tool used a bunch of different AI scraping tools to find Radiology clinics in New Zealand, followed by a range of different data manipulation (automated and manual) to have the data in a form that would work with a WordPress directory website.
I think the standalone tool while currently bare-bones is already useful in seeing where imaging clinics are (as well as where there unfortunately is a lack of radiology clinics), and hopefully it can get better over time.
So have a look at https://radiologyclinics.co.nz/https://radiologyclinics.co.nz/ and let me know what you think!
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