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Education in, and status of, radiology in Europe

The European Association of Radiology has been anxious to help to establish the status of radiology throughout European countries. The standing of radiologists in many European countries is not the same as in Britain where consultants in one recognized specialty are the equal of consultants in other specialties.

In Britain, nowadays, a candidate for a consultant post should ideally possess the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists, and will probably have five or six years of experience of radiology behind him.

In other European countries an examination system has not been developed, and training in most branches of medicine has been by apprenticeship. France and Eire have well established examination systems in radiology and more recently Italy and Switzerland have introduced them.