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Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates
BACKGROUND: The role of radiology in medicine and healthcare is rapidly expanding worldwide, but awareness about this field among medical students is poor. This is the first study to assess Syrian medical students’ knowledge and attitude regarding radiology. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7683655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33226458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13244-020-00937-9 |
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author | Alchallah, Mhd Obai Ismail, Hlma Dia, Tala Shibani, Mosa Alzabibi, Mhd Amin Mohsen, Fatema Turkmani, Khaled Sawaf, Bisher |
author_facet | Alchallah, Mhd Obai Ismail, Hlma Dia, Tala Shibani, Mosa Alzabibi, Mhd Amin Mohsen, Fatema Turkmani, Khaled Sawaf, Bisher |
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description | BACKGROUND: The role of radiology in medicine and healthcare is rapidly expanding worldwide, but awareness about this field among medical students is poor. This is the first study to assess Syrian medical students’ knowledge and attitude regarding radiology. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study conducted at the Syrian Private University, on November 8, 2019, on the International Day of Radiology during the war crisis. Data were collected through self-administered surveys and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). RESULTS: The questionnaire was completed by 269 students whose ages ranged between 17 and 30 years old. Males constituted 63.6% of the respondents. The results revealed adequate knowledge about the basics of radiology. 73.6% of the students had previously heard about interventional radiology. There were slight misconceptions with certain points in each section, especially those pertaining to the radiation exposure of each imaging method. Finally, the students expressed low interest in radiology as a future career (24.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The level of awareness can affect a student’s decision in considering radiology as a future career. Further evaluation of the methods of teaching, input from medical boards, curriculum advisors, and guidance from radiologists is required. |
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spelling | pubmed-76836552020-11-27 Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates Alchallah, Mhd Obai Ismail, Hlma Dia, Tala Shibani, Mosa Alzabibi, Mhd Amin Mohsen, Fatema Turkmani, Khaled Sawaf, Bisher Insights Imaging Original Article BACKGROUND: The role of radiology in medicine and healthcare is rapidly expanding worldwide, but awareness about this field among medical students is poor. This is the first study to assess Syrian medical students’ knowledge and attitude regarding radiology. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study conducted at the Syrian Private University, on November 8, 2019, on the International Day of Radiology during the war crisis. Data were collected through self-administered surveys and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). RESULTS: The questionnaire was completed by 269 students whose ages ranged between 17 and 30 years old. Males constituted 63.6% of the respondents. The results revealed adequate knowledge about the basics of radiology. 73.6% of the students had previously heard about interventional radiology. There were slight misconceptions with certain points in each section, especially those pertaining to the radiation exposure of each imaging method. Finally, the students expressed low interest in radiology as a future career (24.5%). CONCLUSIONS: The level of awareness can affect a student’s decision in considering radiology as a future career. Further evaluation of the methods of teaching, input from medical boards, curriculum advisors, and guidance from radiologists is required. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7683655/ /pubmed/33226458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13244-020-00937-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Alchallah, Mhd Obai Ismail, Hlma Dia, Tala Shibani, Mosa Alzabibi, Mhd Amin Mohsen, Fatema Turkmani, Khaled Sawaf, Bisher Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates |
title | Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates |
title_full | Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates |
title_fullStr | Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates |
title_short | Assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among Syrian medical undergraduates |
title_sort | assessing diagnostic radiology knowledge among syrian medical undergraduates |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7683655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33226458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13244-020-00937-9 |
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