Low to No Risk

25

Moderate Risk

3

High Risk

1

Extreme Risk

1

• 1.2Participate in quality improvement activities including discussions of areas where risk of error is high.
• 0.5Participate in continuing education activities to maintain and develop expertise.
• 2Develop treatment plans for radiology patients.
• 0.5Establish or enforce standards for protection of patients or personnel.
• 1Recognize or treat complications during and after procedures, including blood pressure problems, pain, oversedation, or bleeding.
• 1.3Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
• 2.2Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.
• 1.2Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.
• 1.4Instruct radiologic staff in desired techniques, positions, or projections.
• 1.2Coordinate radiological services with other medical activities.
• 0.8Provide counseling to radiologic patients to explain the processes, risks, benefits, or alternative treatments.
• 1Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
• 0.7Perform interventional procedures such as image-guided biopsy, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, transhepatic biliary drainage, or nephrostomy catheter placement.
• 1.5Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound.
• 1.2Administer radioisotopes to clinical patients or research subjects.
• 0.5Advise other physicians of the clinical indications, limitations, assessments, or risks of diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radioactive materials.
• 2.7Check and approve the quality of diagnostic images before patients are discharged.
• 1.5Compare nuclear medicine procedures with other types of procedures, such as computed tomography, ultrasonography, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, and angiography.
• 1.5Direct nuclear medicine technologists or technicians regarding desired dosages, techniques, positions, and projections.
• 1.2Establish and enforce radiation protection standards for patients and staff.
• 1.2Formulate plans and procedures for nuclear medicine departments.
• 1.1Monitor handling of radioactive materials to ensure that established procedures are followed.
• 1Prescribe radionuclides and dosages to be administered to individual patients.
• 1Review procedure requests and patients' medical histories to determine applicability of procedures and radioisotopes to be used.
• 0.5Teach nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, or other specialties at graduate educational level.

10.0% of Radiologists tasks can be automated with AI or robotics