After seven years of working for Canadian Blood Services, Kasi Schnablegger decided she needed a change and signed up for the medical radiography program at Camosun College, which trains people to become x-ray technologists.

Schnablegger says that although she loved her job, she felt like she had gone as far as she could in that field. Looking for something similar in the health care field that allowed her to work with people, Schnablegger decided radiography was the right fit.

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In addition to the technical skills Schnablegger is learning, sheB次元官网网址檚 taking advantage of CamosunB次元官网网址檚 interdisciplinary learning model by working with other sectors in the health care field. Schnablegger was part of a group of medical radiography students invited to do a simulation with nursing students. The hands-on experience allowed students to work on dummies with a pulse, a heartbeat and verbal skills to recreate a real hospital scenario.

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For Phillip Yee, an alumnus of the program, one of the biggest draws of the program was that there is no typical day, something he wanted after leaving a career in finance in Vancouver back in 2014.

B次元官网网址淥n a regular day, I arrive at work around 8am, show up to my department, and then I start taking x-rays right away.B次元官网网址� Yee thrives on the variety, whether heB次元官网网址檚 in the operating room, the x-ray clinic, stationed at Victoria General Hospital or Royal Jubilee Hospital as an employee of Island Health.

Yee explains his passion for technology and working with other people meets in his new profession.

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