title: Teaching syllabus for radiological aspects of breast cancer screening with digital mammography.
abstract: The purpose of this study is to discuss the content of our new accreditation programme for radiologists' reading digital mammograms in a screening setting and to report our first experience with the new course. The course consisted of a theoretical part, given by the medical physicist, and a practical part given by the radiologist. The practical session is closely linked with the theoretical part and a reading session. The material is fully digital and can be presented on different platforms. In practice, the need for parallel soft-copy reading sessions on high-end workstations limits the number of participants. A high level of interactivity was noted between teacher and participant, with a thorough discussion of different digital mammography systems during a single teaching course. The main challenge for the teacher turned out to be the collection of representative material and the continuous updating of the material: new systems, processing techniques and artefacts need to be included regularly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Leuven, UZ Gasthuisberg, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. chantal.vanongeval@uzleuven.br
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Van Ongeval
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Van Steen
authors.forename: Hilde
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bosmans
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D008403:Mass Screening; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013663:Teaching