|
KMID : 1103720140710060288
|
|
Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
2014 Volume.71 No. 6 p.288 ~ p.295
|
|
|
Interpreting Performance of Mammograms by Radiology Residents Trained in Breast Imaging: Comparison with Radiologists Who Attended Mammography Boot Camp
|
|
Lee Eun-Hye
Kim Sung-Hun
An Jin-Kyung
Choi Seon -Hyeong
Kim Sook-Jung
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Purpose: To compare the interpreting performance of mammograms between residents trained in breast imaging and radiologists who attended the mammography boot camp (MBC) suggesting directions for training in breast imaging.
Materials and Methods: We compared the performance of 61 residents trained in breast imaging for more than 2 months at 21 institutions with that of 141 radiologists who attended MBC using the same test case series. We compared mean scores and rates of correct answers between the two groups and examined residents’ mean scores varied by institution.
Results: Residents’ mean score was 60.9 ± 12.2 and radiologists’ mean scores were 56.0 ± 12.2 (p = 0.004) and 78.3 ± 9.2 (p < 0.001) before and after camp, respectively. Residents were superior to pre-camp radiologists in interpreting microcalcifications (70.5% vs. 56.4%; p < 0.001) and true-negative cases (71.8% vs. 59.2%; p < 0.001). They were inferior to post-camp radiologists in interpreting mass/asymmetry (56.7% vs. 86.6%; p < 0.001) and microcalcifications (70.5% vs. 90.3%; p < 0.001). The mean score of all institutions except one was 61.8 ± 9.4.
Conclusion: Trained residents’ interpreting performance of mammograms is superior to that of pre-camp radiologists but inferior to that of post-camp radiologists. Substantial training in interpreting mammograms during residency is suggested.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Breast, Breast Neoplasms, Mammography, Education
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|