Graduate Programs in the Radiological Basic Sciences

Abstract

The steadily growing need for teachers, workers, and investigators in the fields of Radiation Physics and Radiation Biology has not been filled successfully, on the basis of the numerous vacancies in these disciplines in departments of radiology in the United States. The Commission on Education of the American College of Radiology undertook a survey of graduate, degree-conferring programs, projected or now in operation, in the various medical centers of this country, hoping to stimulate interest in the formation of new programs, to the end that radiologists might begin to have available to them a sufficient number of colleagues in the fields of Physics and Biology. The members of the Commission were surprised to find that there were far more programs of excellent character available than anyone in the field of Radiology had realized until that time, and that many of these programs were unknown to prospective trainees in these vital fields. Accordingly, Earl R. Miller, M.D., the present Chairman of the Commission on Education, and Philip J. Hodes, M.D., past Chairman of the Commission, under whose direction this work was done, have suggested the publication of the following lists of programs and the dissemination of these lists to all interested prospective students. It will be of interest to the teacher and the practicing radiologist to observe the number and nature of these programs now in existence. Probably even more of them are needed, for there is always room for a new program of good quality in any field. The following tables show graduate, degree-conferring programs only, classified by field of endeavor, as Radiation Biology, Radiation Physics, and Health Physics, and as to the degree offered, with additional notation on a source of information on each program.