
Radiology occupies rather a unique position as a subject for teaching to undergraduate medical students. It is a new medical specialty. Its diagnostic and therapeutic applications have grown at a tremendous rate and have become unusually widespread. While it is more or less intimately concerned in every branch of medicine, its development has been left largely in the hands of a comparatively few medical men, assisted in a great measure by physicists and manufacturers of equipment. Its development and its position as a specialty have been taken largely for granted by the greater part of the medical profession. Comparatively few students or recent graduates expect to take it up as a specialty or even to practice it directly in a smaller way, although it must serve all of them. For these reasons, little earnest thought has been given to radiology from the standpoint of undergraduate teaching, aside from the desire
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