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Table 3 Questions and answers on the training of radiology residents

From: Challenges and opportunities to delivering cardiac imaging training: a national survey by the Italian college of cardiac radiology

Training of radiology resident

Survey item

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Availability of didactic lectures

No: 14 (33%)

CCTA: 2 (5%)

CMR: 0 (0%)

CCTA + CMR: 25 (60%)

No answer: 1 (2%)

Didactic lectures (hours per year)

 ≤ 5: 29 (69%)

6–10: 7 (17%)

11–15: 4 (10%)

 > 15: 0 (0%)

No answer: 2 (4%)

Case conference (hours per year)

 ≤ 5: 14 (33%)

6–10: 6 (14%)

11–15: 3 (7%)

 > 15: 17 (41%)

No answer: 2 (5%)

Cardiac rotation

Mandatory: 11 (26%)

Optional: 24 (57%)

Does not exist: 5 (12%)

Does not exist, but possibility to do in another center: 1 (2%)

No answer: 1 (3%)

Cardiac rotation (modalities)

CCTA + CMR: 29 (69%)

CCTA: 2 (5%)

CMR. 1 (2%)

Not exist: 9 (21%)

No answer: 1 (3%)

% of resident dedicated to cardiac imaging

0–24%: 34 (81%)

25–49%: 4 (10%)

50–74%: 0 (0%)

75–100%: 4 (9%)

 

Teaching method (regarding the reporting)

Alone with correction: 26 (62%)

Assisted reading: 10 (24%)

Just watching report: 4 (10%)

No answer: 2 (4%)

 

Presence of cardiac imaging cases logbook

Yes: 21 (50%)

No: 21 (50%)

   
  1. CCTA: coronary computed tomography angiography; CMR: cardiac magnetic resonance