some more great stuff-- this from Grant Lattin

[William Kelly]

Thank you for your email and my apologies for the delay in my
response. I am the current MS2 Radiographic Interpretation course
director and wanted to pass along a few of the objectives and topics
covered in our current chest radiograph lectures (see below). The
highlight of the course is an oral chest radiograph exam following
these
lectures. Hopefully, this information will be useful to your team in
developing the new curriculum. Feel free to contact me if I can be of
any assistance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> -Grant
>
> Grant Lattin, Jr.
> Maj, USAF, MC
> Assistant Professor, Dept of Radiology
>
> Overall Course Goals:
> To serve as an introduction to the field
> Provide basic material necessary to function in third year
clerkships
> To make students better consumers of radiology services (ie.
appropriateness criteria in ordering imaging studies)
> To illustrate how the radiologist is the clinician’s consultant and
how the student can help the radiologist to help him/her (e.g. the
importance of choosing the right exam, knowing the limitation of
exams,
providing clinical history).
> Define radiologic terms to help students to understand radiographic
report
>
> Overall Chest Objectives:
> ●Develop a systematic approach to the evaluation of the plain
radiograph of the chest and be able to detect important emergent
findings
> ●Possess a basic understanding of radiographic and axial CT anatomy
>
> 2. Chest II – Anatomy of the Chest Radiograph (Grant Lattin)
> Teach frontal and lateral chest radiographic anatomy
> Introduce basic chest CT for correlation
> Introduce the systematic approach
> (Turning Point)
>
> 3. Chest III – The Systematic Approach: Airway and Lung (Jeremiah
Long)
> Review of systematic approach
> Illustrations of abnormalities in each of the places we look
> -Emphasize Don’t Miss findings – ptx, tension ptx, pneumonia,
SPN, lobar collapse, pulmonary edema
> -Illustrate importance of two views
> - Illustration of satisfaction of search pitfall
> Emphasize how history helps to narrow the differential
> May use CT to reinforce radiographic findings
>
> 4. Chest IV – The Systematic Approach: Mediastinum, pleura, chest
wall and surrounding soft tissues (Ellen Chung)
> Begin with review of systematic approach
> Emphasize Don’t Miss findings – tube and line misplacement,
pleural effusion, wide mediastinum, spine fracture dislocation in
trauma
> Emphasize how history helps to narrow the differential
> May use CT to reinforce radiographic findings
>