Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Trauma, eHealth, Computer applications, CT, Ultrasound, Digital radiography, Computer Applications-General, eLearning, Education, Education and training
Authors:
U. Pahalawatta, S. Teh, D. Ong, A. Dawson, R. Rattan; NSW/AU
DOI:
10.26044/ranzcr2019/R-0080
Background
Radiology education is increasingly recognised to be an area for improvement in most undergraduate medical programs, with most teaching presently being on an ad hoc basis. When reviewing the surgical curriculum for the 3rd and 4th year medical students it became apparent that medical image interpretation can be an assessable skill, with several difficult surgical pathologies expected to be interpreted.
While there are good formal teaching programs offered by radiology residents and consultants at some hospitals, junior doctors are the main educators for medical students on a day-to-day basis during their clinical surgery attachments. The lack of an effective framework to teach radiology can lead to poor ad hoc teaching and significant variability in the quality of teaching provided.