While greater efforts are needed to make sure more newly minted radiologists have a better grasp of policy, business and quality assurance issues, the researchers said positive recent moves include the American College of Radiology's leadership institute, which launches this summer; the Journal of the American College of Radiology's quality-oriented features; and new conference courses, such as one offered at ARRS this week on "pitfalls" in radiology, that addressed patient safety, quality and malpractice issues.

The researchers said in addition to writing up their results for a journal submission, they're also looking back at the data to see if they can discover if some other specialties scored high for competence.


"Obviously if radiologist are below the curve and nonradiologists are middle-of-the-road, then there must be high achievers in this, and what can radiologists learn from those types of specialties?" Sharpe said.

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