Kirsty Williamson
Kirsty is a QMU graduate. She studied diagnostic radiography. Since graduating two
years ago, she has been working at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI) as a
radiographer. As a student at QMU, she was on placement at ERI and she feels her
local hospital experience helped her in finding a job on graduation.
She works in a big department within ERI with a varied workload and feels her
student experience in this department was very useful.
She liked the block format of her course at QMU, where placements were punctuated
with periods of theoretical training on campus. She says students need to work hard
on placement. She feels her course prepared her well for her career, and found the
emphasis on team-work useful as it mirrors her real-life experience. She found QMU
staff were always ready to help out with questions.
She tells us her course at QMU attracted a diverse range of students from all over
the world, giving her the opportunity to learn from different cultures. This experience
has proven useful to her in her career as the workforce at ERI is highly diverse.
She is pleased that she opted to study for a course that prepared her for a specific
career.