Foundations and Practice of Adult Chest and Abdomen Reporting

This module will encourage you to engage in active and informed participation in core image reporting of the Adult Chest and Abdomen. Adult is considered to be any patient over the age of 16. The module will adopt a learner-centric approach and through your study and development, you will become champions in the specialism of Adult Chest and Abdomen reporting. Your actions, as an Adult Chest and Abdomen reporter, will have a direct consequence on the management of patient care and will help ensure imaging departments are able to produce timely imaging reports in line with IR(me)R. The module will explore and contextualise the foundations of image reporting such as visual perception, satisfaction of search, medico-legal aspects of reporting, maintaining quality in report writing and conducting audit as well as the fundamental skill of interpreting the image.