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Table 4 Survey Sect. 2: questions and answers about the radiology resident’s opinion

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

Radiology resident opinion

Survey item

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Answer: n° (%)

Importance of cardiac imaging training

Unimportant: 1 (0%)

Slightly important: 14 (6%)

Moderately important: 75 (32%)

Important: 90 (38%)

Very important: 55 (24%)

Adequateness of CCTA imaging training

Definitely Not: 26 (11%)

Probably Not: 40 (17%)

Possibly: 59 (25%)

Probably: 50 (21%)

Definitely: 60 (26%)

Adequateness of CMR imaging training

Definitely Not: 28 (12%)

Probably Not: 42 (18%)

Possibly: 69 (29%)

Probably: 46 (20%)

Definitely: 50 (21%)

Best teaching method (regarding the reporting)

Alone with correction: 80 (34%)

Assisted reading: 135 (66%)

Just watching report: 0 (0%)

  

Preference about training

Didactic lecture: 47 (20%)

Conference: 4 (2%)

Didactic lecture + Conference: 184 (78%)

  

Possibility of research in cardiac imaging

Never: 16 (7%)

Rarely: 39 (17%)

Sometimes: 63 (27%)

Often: 67 (29%)

Always: 50 (20%)

Importance of doing research in cardiac imaging

Unimportant: 7 (3%)

Slightly Important: 17 (7%)

Moderately Important: 64

(27%)

Important: 80 (34%)

Very Important: 67 (29%)

Work in cardiac imaging in the future

Definitely Not: 30 (13%)

Probably Not: 31 (13%)

Possibly: 81 (35%)

Probably: 49 (21%)

Definitely: 44 (18%)

Relationships between cardiology and radiology

Good: 111 (47%)

Not good: 32 (14%)

Unsure: 92 (39%)

  

In the future cardiac imaging will be done by

Radiologist: 39 (17%)

Combined Readouts: 147 (63%)

Radiologist extracardiac findings only: 6 (3%)

Cardiologist: 24 (10%)

Unsure: 19 (7%)

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