[Development and Usefulness of Support Package for Learning of Image Interpretation Assistance Using CT and MRI Image in Emergency Medicine].

Abstract

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced about the expansion of duties by the radiological technologists in team medical care in April, 2010, and the importance of image interpretation assistance by the radiological technologists became higher. In that respect, for improvement in ability of image interpretation assistance by the radiological technologists in emergency medicine, we developed a support package for learning of image interpretation assistance (support package) and evaluated the usefulness for learning of image interpretation assistance by questionnaires. The support package included digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) data of case, explainer video of urgent imaging findings, and DICOM viewer. In 100% of evaluators, the support package was useful for urgent imaging findings in emergency medicine. Moreover, 68.9% of the evaluators had an experience helped by learning to use the support package in the clinical site. In conclusion, we confirmed that the support package was useful for learning of image interpretation assistance by the radiological technologists.