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American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 156, 59-62, Copyright © 1991 by American Roentgen Ray Society

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Present status of residency training in mammography

LW Bassett, CI Cassady and RH Gold
Iris Cantor Center for Breast Imaging, UCLA Medical Center.

We conducted a telephone interview of all 207 accredited diagnostic radiology residency training programs listed in the American Medical Association's Directory of Graduate Medical Education Programs. Resident training in mammography was offered in 206 programs, and 35% of the programs had initiated this training within the past 3 years. Residents had an assigned block of time to do mammography in 84% of the programs. Of the 206 programs, 40% had rotations devoted exclusively to mammography, with 82% of the exclusive rotations lasting from 4 to 8 weeks. Residents were performing localization procedures in 91% of the programs and dictating cases in 81%. A distinction was made between screening and diagnostic examinations by 35% of the training institutions, at least in terms of the fee for the examination. Radiologists who devoted at least half of their practice to mammography taught in 52% of the programs. The American College of Radiology has granted accreditation in mammography to 29% of the programs. Although almost all accredited residency training programs offer training in mammography, there are some deficiencies in this training. More residents need to gain the experience of dictating mammography reports and need to learn about the distinctions between screening and diagnostic mammography. Despite the anticipated deluge of screening examinations in the next decade, there were only 17 fellowships that included at least 6 months of mammography identified in 15 (7%) of the institutions; only 11 of these were full-time 1-year breast imaging fellowships.
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