The impact of a 2-week radiology program on year 4 medical students’ perception of radiology in clinical practice
Submitted: 16 August 2024
Accepted: 12 September 2024
Published online: 1 April, TAPS 2025, 10(2), 104-105
Thazin Han1, Tun Tun Win2, Zaw Phyo1 & Zin Min Htike1
1Department of Medical Education, Defence Services Medical Academy, Myanmar; 2Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, Defence Services Medical Academy, Myanmar
Dear Editor,
The Department of Radiology, Defence Services Medical Academy reports the results on the impact of a 2-week radiology program on year 4 medical students’ perception of radiology. Advances in imaging modalities has led to almost every patient getting a scan prior to any planned management making it essential for medical students to understand the importance of radiology’s role in clinical practice. Limited exposure to radiology can perpetuate negative stereotypes by perceiving radiology as providing no significant contribution to patient care (Grimm et al., 2021). In the academic year of 2020/2021, we piloted a 2-week radiology program for 4th year medical students and conducted a qualitative, experiential, and phenomenological study design using Focus Group Interviews (FGIs) from January to July 2022 after obtaining ethical approval to find out the effectiveness of exposure to radiology impacts on 4th year medical students’ opinions and views on radiology. Eighteen out of 20 4th year medical students volunteered to participate. FGIs can be used to gather rich data through participant exchange of ideas or comments on each other’s views (Stalmeijer et al., 2014). We found that students who were hesitant to express their views individually were willing to do so in small groups.
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