Frequently asked questions by the health professionals
? What are my main responsibilities as a radiologist?
? What are my main responsibilities as a technologist/ radiographer?
? What are my main responsibilities as a medical physicist in radiology?
? What are my main responsibilities as a radiologist?
You have the primary responsibility for ensuring overall radiological protection of patients and to:
- Ensure that each medical exposure is justified in consultation with the referring physician;
- Ensure that the exposure of patients is the minimum required to achieve the intended objective, taking into account the relevant diagnostic reference levels for medical exposure;
- Establish optimized protocols for diagnostic and image guided interventional procedures, in consultation with the medical physicist and technologist/radiographer;
- Provide criteria to manage the examination of pregnant women, paediatric patients, occupational health examinations and medical and biomedical research;
- Evaluate any radiation incident or accident from a medical point of view.
? What are my main responsibilities as a technologist/ radiographer?
As technologist/radiographer you have a key position in protection of the patient. Your responsibilities and duties are to:
- Identify the patient;
- Inform the patient;
- Inform accompanying persons;
- Verify that the female patient is non-pregnant;
- Contribute to the preparation of specifications for new equipment;
- Participate in optimization of imaging protocols;
- Perform the radiological procedure following an optimized protocol and ensuring patient protection;
- Perform regular quality control of radiological equipment;
- take record of patient doses;
- inform the radiologist and radiation protection officer (RPO) in the case of an accident or incident.
? What are my main responsibilities as a medical physicist in radiology?
Your responsibilities and duties are to:
- Plan, in conjunction with the radiologist and the radiation protection officer (RPO), the facilities for radiology practice;
- Prepare performance specifications for equipment with regard to radiation protection;
- Participate in the continuing review of the radiology practice's resources (including budget, equipment and staffing), operations, policies and procedures;
- Carry out acceptance testing and commissioning of equipment;
- Design, implement and supervise QA procedures;
- Supervise equipment maintenance;
- Carry responsibility for calibration of equipment and dosimeters;
- Perform patient dose assessment;
- Participate in optimization of imaging protocols;
- Participate in the investigation and evaluation of incidents and accidents;
- Contribute to the radiation protection training programme.