Radiology teaching material: website review

Abstract

eing a doctor, whether a physician or a surgeon, entails a good knowledge of radiology. Not all of us will acquire the same level of diagnostic interpretive skills as a radiologist, but having basic radiology knowledge will help clinicians to a great extent in their daily duties. In this article, we have reviewed six useful websites with free online radiology teaching material that will be of benefit to all clinicians.We performed a ''google'' search on the internet with the term ''radiology teaching files'' and this yielded 721 000 hits. We reviewed sites that seemed to be educationally orientated. Here are six of the most helpful sites that we consider to be useful to the junior medical practitioner. At the end, each site is rated out of five stars with five being the highest mark achieved. Our review criteria is not strictly based on the Darmoni principle but on our expectations as junior doctors and what we deem to be appropriate for our level. These encompass the following: