Keywords:
Workforce, Quality assurance, Education and training, Education, Audit and standards, Teleradiology, RIS, CT, Professional issues, Management
Authors:
L. I. Lanczi 1, F. Pusztai2, P. Bagyi2; 1Debrecen, Hungary/HU, 2Debrecen/HU
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-3339
Aims and objectives
Postgraduate radiology education should fulfill multiple criteria:
- patient safety should be on the first line,
- radiologists-in-training are young professionals and learners at the same time - so training programs should meet both expectations,
- more experienced professionals should be motivated to pass on knowledge,
- legislation and responsibilities should be clear,
- protocols,
high quality of service and quality assurance should be operated both in healthcare and education,
- there is an emerging need of medical imaging: the number of studies and images are increasing,
while age and geographical distribution of radiologists are changing,
- moreover image obtaining,
reading and reporting methods are changing,
too,
- radiologists-in-training has to face transitions not only in their professional life but in private life,
too.
Our main question is: focusing on young professionals' training,
how can a radiology training centre (a radiology department) - an essential part of a healthcare system - overcome these challenges?
So what can a radiology department do for their trainees?
At our department during 2018 altogether more,
than 340000 radiological exams were carried out - almost 250000 X-ray and more than 27000 CT studies,
among of them 90000 and 5600 cases were teleradiology cases,
respectively.
Sufficiently enough number of studiest to report for 28 radiologists and 14 radiologists-in-training.
For providing a high value service,
our department is implementing quality assurance tools step by step (regularly revised imaging protocols; dose management protocols,
database and meetings; training protocols and programs,
regular evaluations on different levels both for radiographers and radiologists).
It is known,
that peer-review is one of the most commonly used method for assessing performance among radiologists (1),
therefore our department decided to initiate a prospective peer-review method for radiologists-in-training in 2017,
to support their training,
giving feed-back,
make opportunity to read more images on different modalities and improve healthcare services.
To emphasise its importance,
as a result of a survey among all residents doctors in Hungary by the National Healthcare Services Center in spring 2018 was stated that 30% of doctors-in-training does not get any type of feedback during their training.
(2)