Radiation awareness among radiology residents, technologists, fellows and staff: where do we stand?

Conclusions Our results show a variable level of knowledge about radiation dose and risk among radiology residents, fellows, staff radiologists and technologists, but overall knowledge is inadequate in all groups. There is significant underestimation of dosage and cancer risk from common examinations, which could potentially lead to suboptimal risk assessment and excessive or unwarranted studies posing significant radiation hazard to the patient and radiology workers. Main Messages • Knowledge of radiation dose and risk is poor among all radiology workers. • Significant knowledge gap among technologists compared to residents, fellows and staff radiologists. • Significant underestimation of radiation dose and cancer risk from common examinations.
Source: Insights into Imaging - Category: Radiology Source Type: research