Endocrine system [eBook for Undergraduate Education in Radiology]

Abstract

Undergraduate teaching of radiology in Europe is provided according to national schemes and may vary considerably from one academic institution to another. Sometimes, the field of radiology is considered as a “crosscutting discipline” or taught within the context of other clinical disciplines, e.g., internal medicine or surgery. This e-book has been created in order to serve medical students and academic teachers throughout Europe to understand and teach radiology as a whole coherent discipline, respectively. Its contents are based on the Undergraduate Level of the ESR European Training Curriculum for Radiology and summarize the so-called core elements that may be considered as the basics that every medical student should be familiar with. Although specific radiologic diagnostic skills for image interpretation cannot be acquired by all students and rather belong to the learning objectives of the Postgraduate Levels of the ESR Training Curricula, the present eBook also contains some further insights related to modern imaging in the form of examples of key pathologies, as seen by the different imaging modalities. These are intended to give the interested undergraduate student an understanding of modern radiology, reflecting its multidisciplinary character as an organ-based specialty. We would like to extend our special thanks to the authors and members of the ESR Education Committee who have contributed to this eBook, to Carlo Catalano, Andrea Laghi and Andras Palko, who initiated this project, and to the ESR Office, in particular Bettina Leimberger and Danijel Lepir, for all their support in realising this project. We hope that this eBook may fulfil its purpose as a useful tool for undergraduate academic radiology teaching. [Preface by Minerva Becker & Vicky Goh]