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.?