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Keywords:
Workforce, Education and training, Health policy and practice, Education, Audit and standards, RIS, PACS, Professional issues, Management
Authors:
F. Pathiraja1, D. Little2, G. B. Collins3, H. Lewis-Jones4; 1London/UK, 2Bristol/UK, 3Cambridge, Ca/UK, 4Liverpool/UK
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2014/C-1580
Results
16 surveys were returned (53% response rate).
Thematic analysis of free text answers demonstrated the growing role of radiology residents as educators in formal roles as both academic clinical fellows and clinical teaching fellows. Several examples of existing collaboration between radiology and anatomy departments delivering integrated teaching were identified.
Descriptive statistics of headline results:
50% had started to align the medical school curriculum with the RCR undergraduate curriculum.
Fig. 4: Piechart to illustrate the responses from 16 medical schools to the question "Have you aligned your medical school curriculum with the RCR undergraduate curriculum?"
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93% had a dedicated undergraduate radiology course led by clinical radiologists.
Fig. 3: Piechart to illustrate the responses from 16 medical schools to the question "Do you have a dedicated undergraduate radiology course led by radiologists?"
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63% of responders would consider sharing teaching resources to create a central repository.
Fig. 5: Piechart to illustrate the responses from 16 medical schools to the question "Would you be willing to share teaching resources to create a central repository?"
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Areas of local best practice include: Imperial (comprehensive online e-learning modules to complement radiology attachment),
Aberdeen (use of clinical teaching fellows to deliver teaching),
Liverpool (use of OSIRIX software to develop local resources) and UCL (vertical integration of anatomy and radiology).
Wider issues raised during focus group discussions:
Fig. 6: Key themes arising from discussion of a focus group on undergraduate radiology convened by the Royal College of Radiologists.
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- Information governance involved with sharing data nationally in a potential national repository of clinical images
- Protecting a sense of autonomy in the way that radiology teaching is delivered at individual medical schools whilst aligning aims with the RCR curriculum
- As imaging takes a more central role with wider National Health Service policy changes e.g.
7 day working,
undergraduate radiology needs to also take a more prominent role to reflect this.
- Future workforce: radiology is an increasingly competitive postgraduate specialty and its visibility has vastly increased over the past 10 years.
Alongside formal teaching,
there are several grassroots student initiatives to set up radiology societies.
- Financing and funding: radiologists who are keen to teach need to understand how to navigate funding for teaching from their departments.
- Engaging with the medical school: radiologists who are keen to teach should become involved in medical school educational activities e.g.
curriculum committees,
examining,
interviewing and writing examinations.