Key conditions
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) have published a curriculum of "Key Conditions in Year 1 of Training", which have been defined as those that the trainee must have had both formal and informal teaching sessions on in the first four months of training prior to performing on-call duties.
Forty-six conditions are listed per the RANZCR Radiodiagnosis Training Program Curriculum, which broadly divides them into the following categories:
- management of contrast reactions
- neuroimaging
- head and neck imaging
- obstetric and gynecological imaging
- viability scanning
- ectopic pregnancy
- tubo-ovarian masses
- ovarian masses
- ruptured ovarian cysts
- musculoskeletal imaging
- fractures
- dislocations
- spinal fractures and dislocations
- epidural hematoma
- septic arthritis
- osteomyelitis
- diskitis
- chest imaging
- pneumothorax
- pulmonary embolism
- pulmonary edema
- aortic dissection
- cardiac tamponade
- flail chest
- infections - typical and atypical (e.g. tuberculosis)
- abdominal imaging
- free gas
- bowel obstruction
- volvulus
- trauma
- abdominal aortic aneurysm and rupture
- mesenteric ischemia
- testicular torsion
- abdominal sepsis
- intra-abdominal abscesses and collections
- the acute abdomen (including appendicitis, pyelonephritis, acute cholecystitis, etc.)
- pediatric imaging
- vascular and interventional radiology
- acute aortic syndromes
- trauma (including pseudoaneurysm, intramural hematoma formation, etc.)
- aneurysm (including rupture, aortitis and mycotic aneurysm)
- dissection
- extravasation/hemorrhage/thromboembolism
- trauma
- gastrointestinal bleeding and management
- acute aortic syndromes
