What education or skills are needed to be a radiologist?
Well, obviously, you have to go to medical school. You have to have a college degree to get there. So you need a four year college degree, four years in medical school, an internship, a four-year residency, and a one to two-year fellowship after that. As far as skills, they need to be a problem-solver. Some people are good at memorizing things. Some people are good at problem solving. Some people are good at both, not too many, but it’s not good enough just to know a lot. You have to be able to apply that, and in a lot of ways what we do is like extremely complex video games. I mean, we’re using images and we’re using all sorts of information to figure out the answers. And so two things that are really key are visual and spacial orientation, and analysis skills. If you are able to think three dimensionally based on two-dimensional objects”drawings, pictures”if you can think three dimensionally, you can turn things around in your mind, upside down, sideways, backwards, forwards, with li
