Education In Radiology .

       There are three missions in the field of education for radiology they are education, research, and delivery of clinical services. The educational field is in danger for radiology and is a growing problem, the two greatest challenges is money and time management. In the last five to ten years benefit of clinical activities has dropped dramatically due to reimbursement from government, private insurers, spiraling technology, and regulatory costs. Faculty members unfortunately do not have enough time to prepare for a teaching seminar because they are pushed to the limit trying to maintain their expected roles in their own departments with the hospital. Medical schools were once devoted to the educating of medical students but now they're complex organizations that focus more on research and clinical businesses then on educating feature radiologists. Being that faculty members are forced to do more patient throughput personal contact with students and teachers is limited which creates a problem when the student is trying to learn and has questions yet the radiologist has his obligation to the hospital and patients. There is a desperate need for new methods of instruction, knowledge acquisition, and assessment. 
       Lucky a new possible solution to this growing problem is simulation tools which are just now being accepted in medicine. These new tools provide very structured method for the delivery and measurement of an educational objective. Another plus is the new tools reduce costs buy substituting very expensive radiologists who would be the teacher. Also can reduce the need for faculty members to engage in repetitive and time consuming teaching of simple skills. Examples of the new tools would be anesthesia and sedation simulators and well designed ultrasound simulators (UltraSim and MedSim). I am unbelievably happy to see this new improvement considering I myself will be enduring a career in radiology I'm glad their fixing the problem before I get to my program of study.