Is it possible to eliminate patient identification errors in medical imaging?

Purpose: The aim of this article is to review a system that validates and documents the process of ensuring the correct patient, correct site and side, and correct procedure (commonly referred to as the 3 C's) within medical imaging.

Methods: A 4-step patient identification and procedure matching process was developed using health care and aviation models. The process was established in medical imaging departments after a successful interventional radiology pilot program.

Medical student radiology teaching in Australia and New Zealand.

This study, involving 19 centres, establishes the status of medical student radiology teaching in Australia and New Zealand. It aims to document the academic and clinical staff profile involved in teaching, to indicate the methods of instructions used, to outline the available radiology library resources for medical students, to list the textbooks used in teaching and to uncover how many radiology departments are involving medical students in research. The findings can be used to plan and execute further actions that will enhance radiology teaching of medical students.

Radiology curriculum topics for medical students: students' perspectives.

Rationale And Objective: We sought to establish medical students' perspectives of a set of curriculum topics for radiology teaching.

Materials And Methods: A multicenter study was conducted in New Zealand. A modified Delphi method was adopted.

Problem-based learning and medical student radiology teaching.

The present study describes some practical advantages and disadvantages of problem-based learning (PBL), and makes suggestions to improve PBL radiology teaching of medical students.