1) Understand the new clinical role of each member of the breast cancer imaging team in providing total patient care. 2) Discern the importance of appropriate interactions with the other members of the imaging team. 3) Apply the changing paradigm of patient care within the breast imaging model to other areas of diagnostic and interventional radiology.
Over the past 15 years, breast imaging as a subspecialty has been transformed from a purely imaging-based modality to a true clinical specialty, requiring a specialized team of individuals sensitized not only to the imaging aspects, but also to the clinical, pathology and treatment aspects of breast cancer care. The role of each team member and the important interactions with other members will be expanded upon, with emphasis on the need to include the patient in all such interactions. Further emphasis will be placed on the changing face of all of radiology toward more direct interactions with patients, and how the breast imaging model can be modified and adapted to the rest of diagnostic and interventional radiology to better serve patient needs, thereby improving patient outcomes.
Linver, M,
The Team Approach to Breast Imaging: A Model for All of Radiology. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
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