Instruction and Training in Medical Radiology

Abstract

In radiant energy, medicine has found a means for diagnosis and therapy which has become indispensable for the healing art, and which is growing in importance every day. Through research and systematic elaboration of acquired experience, roentgen diagnostics—no less than radiotherapy—has developed into an extensive scientific specialty with its own working methods. In practical medicine, radiology has, in fact, acquired a secure position as an independent system, with its own institutions, led by specially trained radiologists. While medical radiology has been developing and greater and greater tasks have been allotted to it, it has become clear to the representatives of practical medicine—no less than to the universities—that thorough special instruction and training in medical radiology are essential, not only to those intending to devote themselves entirely to it but also to specialists in different branches of medicine to whom radiology will constitute a necessary accessory science. The conviction tha...