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What are some requirements to become a radiologist?

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I don't know about the requirements per-se, but I do know there's a couple of quite different routes into it. Going into a medical degree and gradually specialising in radiology would see the most obvious route; but I'm a radiation physicist in an industrial field, and I know a good chunk of the students in my nuclear physics classes were looking to get into radiology and radiotherapy, so taking a physics undergraduate program followed by a postgraduate radiation physics course is also apparently a good route in (at least on my side of the "pond").

I couldn't say much about the medical requirements, but from a radiation physicist's point of view, I can say radiologists would need to be comfortable working with ionising radiation and will need a good mathematical understanding to deal with dose measurements and converting between different units.
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