Radiology should be a required part of the medical school curriculum.

The interests of the future medical community and its patients would be better served if radiology were made a part of the core curriculum in all 4 years in all medical schools so that it would be impossible to obtain an M.D. degree in this country without a thorough grounding in this vital subject. Radiology should no longer be an elective part of the curriculum now that so much of the study and practice of medicine depends on familiarity with imaging studies.