The Place of Physics in the Training of the Medical Radiologist

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When you did me the honour of electing me to the high office of President of The British Institute of Radiology, implicitly you laid on me the duty, or perhaps I should say conferred on me the privilege, of delivering a Presidential Address. My first problem was to find a suitable subject, and this proved less difficult than I had anticipated, for, on reflection, I realised that if I could make any claim to have furthered the interests of radiology, it must be based on my long connection with the radiological diplomas. It seemed to me, therefore, that my course was plain, and that I ought to make an attempt to review the position of physics in the general scheme of radiological education. Radiologists of the younger generation, accustomed as they are to the existence of organised courses of instruction, find it difficult to realise the almost complete lack of facilities for systematic teaching at the end of the first world war. The steps that led to the inception of the Cambridge Diploma in March 1919 are recorded by Dr. Barclay in the December number of The British Journal of Radiology for 1942, and need not be set out in detail here. Suffice it to say that the first course started early in 1920, and the first examination was held in July of the same year.

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