Medical Students Need Earlier Exposure to Radiology According to Drs. Desser and Hovsepian

Although radiology still remains among the top 10 specialty choices, it has fallen from fifth to ninth, according to the National Residency Matching Program. In "Early Radiology Exposure Could Lure Medical Students to Specialty" from the August 2009 RSNA News, Terry Desser, MD, professor of radiology and residency program director, and David Hovsepian, MD, professor of radiology as well as chief quality and safety officer, describe the causes of decreasing interest in radiology while offering solutions.

According to Dr. Hovsepian, the diminished appeal of radiology as a career choice among medical students is due in part to "students' misperceptions about what radiologists actually do and the central role that we often play in patient care." One solution is to expose medical students early on to radiology, as Dr. Desser describes: "We need to be the ones teaching them anatomy and about imaging and manifestations of pathophysiology on imaging early on in their training, so they recognize what we do and what we contribute." To read the full article, please access http://www.rsna.org/Publications/rsnanews/August-2009/early_exposure_feature.cfm or Download file.

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