The personnel shortage that currently plagues all of radiology has hit pediatric imaging especially hard. More than half of pediatric imaging fellowships available in the United States went begging in 2002, according to data compiled by the Society of Chairmen of Pediatric Radiology (SCORCH). To add insult to injury, pediatric imaging has been saddled with a bad rap: that it offers less pay than adult radiology; requires more on-call duty; and that it simply doesn’t lend itself to cutting-edge imaging techniques.
In an article by staff editor Eric Barnes, several pediatric radiology pundits hold forth on the state of this subspecialty, and discuss what’s being done to revive interest in imaging the littlest patients. For all the details, click here or visit our Imaging Center Digital Community.
In other AuntMinnie news, check out the wrap-up of our onsite reports from the 2003 Society of Nuclear Medicine conference in New Orleans. If you're grappling with the integration of PET/CT with PACS, you’ll definitely want to read about the experience of researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes in Baltimore. They test-drove a number of systems and found them not quite up to speed. Click here for the inside scoop.
