To assess the use of a pelvic simulation curriculum to teach obstetrics and gynecologic residents the pediatric gynecology examination and procedures.
To implement and study the effectiveness of a high-yield and expedited curriculum to train internal medicine interns to use bedside ultrasound for physical examination and procedures.
In order to evaluate the major drivers the costs were separated into 10 categories: anaesthesia, monitoring, infusion and blood product associated costs, further postoperative ward and ICU stay, clinical examination and procedures, laboratory diagnostics, antimicrobial agents, radio-diagnostics and others.
On further analysis, current smokers had fewer skin examinations and procedures than never smokers, suggesting greater opportunities for detection among never smokers.
Radiologists should understand the clinical context of examinations and procedures, interact directly with patients, conduct imaging research, and thus subspecialise, particularly in large academic and community hospitals.
Other diagnostic follow-up examinations and procedures may be required after bone SPECT/CT, for example to rule out infection or assess ligaments and soft tissue structures.
Radiologists must better understand the clinical context of examinations and procedures, interact more directly with patients, conduct imaging research, be true experts in their field and thus subspecialise, Dunnick emphasised.
