Teaching Diagnostic
Physics to Radiology
Residents…..
How Should We Be
Doing It?
J. Anthony Seibert, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Department of Radiology
Disclosure
• Co-author: The Essential Physics of
Medical Imaging, by Bushberg, Seibert,
Leidholdt and Boone
How should we?
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Planning and Scheduling
Resource Development
Implementation and Delivery
Testing and Verification
Follow up & Feedback
Review / Refresher
New Directions
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Planning / Scheduling
• Involve Radiology administration
• Schedule “acceptable” time
• Lectures:
– Weekly, 2x / week, daily…..?
– Time….. AM, noon, late PM…?
• Attendance mandatory?
Course content
www.theABR.org → written examination
Planning / Scheduling
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Planning / Scheduling
• Daily lectures: maintain continuity
• Review previous day lecture
• Be flexible for special (clinical) lectures
Implementation & Delivery
• Reference materials
– Develop your own notes / style
Content Delivery
• Provide notes
• Be interactive
Notes given to residents
Overhead
Transparency
Reference to
question
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Interactive notes
Interactive notes
Content Delivery
• Use figures & images frequently
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Delivery: animation
• Move to computer delivery……
A-line Data
Recording “amplitude”of echoes
along the beam direction
Direct multi-planar acquisition
Axial
TOF Images
Coronal
Sagittal
MR Angio
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Laboratory exercises
• Radiography & Fluoroscopy
– X-ray tube output, kV & mA
– HVL
– Attenuation
– Detector characteristics
• Radiation Safety & Protection
• Other modalities…..
Supplement with webbased teaching sources
Questions / Answers
www.theABR.org → written examination
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Questions / Answers
Cross reference information from text to questions, questions to text
Testing / Verification
Follow up & Feedback
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Evaluate test results
Determine strengths / weaknesses
Involve residents
Redesign / update course content
• Basic overview prior to written exam
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New Directions?
……. Be prepared
• Basic physics overview, 1st year
– Radiation Safety
– General X-ray physics
• Certification (where necessary)
– State mandated requirements
• Physics modules, 1st – 4th years?
– Modality-based; hands-on
– Part of clinical rotation
• Web distribution / delivery?
Issues
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Implementation
Maintenance of Certification
Physics instruction and access
Consensus
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