Preparatory Short Mammography Training Course Held at Hyogo Prefecture to Enhance Mammogram Reading Ability

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  • Nishihara Tokumitsu
    Hakka Hospital Breast Cancer Screening Committee of the Himeji Medical Association Conference of the Examination to Advance Breast Cancer Screening at the Hyogo Medical Association
  • Uragami Ikunori
    Breast Cancer Screening Committee of the Himeji Medical Association Conference of the Examination to Advance Breast Cancer Screening at the Hyogo Medical Association
  • Terai Masaya
    Department of Cancer Screening, Himeji Medical Association
  • Maruyama Shuichirou
    Breast Cancer Screening Committee of the Himeji Medical Association
  • Maruta Tsutomu
    Breast Cancer Screening Committee of the Himeji Medical Association
  • Ohtoshi Masahiro
    Breast Cancer Screening Committee of the Himeji Medical Association
  • Izumi Akira
    Himeji Medical Association
  • Nishida Yoshihiro
    Conference of the Examination to Advance Breast Cancer Screening at the Hyogo Medical Association
  • Adachi Kouhei
    Conference of the Examination to Advance Breast Cancer Screening at the Hyogo Medical Association
  • Matsunaga Yoshinori
    Conference of the Examination to Advance Breast Cancer Screening at the Hyogo Medical Association Hyogo Medical Association

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  • マンモグラフィ講習会における事前講習会の教育効果

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To ensure a sufficient number of doctors who are qualified to read screening mammograms in Hyogo Prefecture, we have held mammography training courses five times a year since December 2005, and preparatory short courses have been held beforehand three times. The preparatory course comprises a preliminary course and a course prepared for those advancing further. We distributed all applicants of these courses into two groups. The first (I) consisted of applicants taking instruction since the preparatory course, and the second (II), those without the preparatory course. We then estimated the efficacy of instruction of these applicants as the percentage of pass grades or correct answers. About 75 percent of applicants having experience in reading clinical mammograms passed, compared with less than 30 percent of those having no experience. Preliminary instruction effectively boosted the proportion of pass grades by about 20 percent, regardless of clinical experience. The percentages of correct category answers among group I were apparently higher than those in group II for tumor and calcification, and we found a similar result for architectural distortion. However, there was no significant difference between the groups for FAD. Consequently we assumed that preliminary instruction was at least as effective as participation in previous breast cancer treatments for improving skill at reading screen mammograms.

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