The Teaching of Radiology: an Analysis of Health Curricula in Undergraduate Institutions of Southern Brazil

ABSTRACT Introduction Due to the importance of radiology in medical research, disease diagnosis and prevention, allied to its current and future technological advances, it is imperative that more studies are conducted to evaluate its curricular dynamics. Objective To evaluate the curricular profile of radiology in Medicine, Physiotherapy and Biomedicine courses offered in public and private undergraduate educational institutions in the southern region of Brazil. Material and methods The class hours of the courses were analyzed and data about subjects that would be related to radiology (SRRs – Subjects Related to Radiology) was collected. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The proportionality of the class hours of the SRRs in the courses was made through correlation between the courses’ total class hours and those allocated to the SRRs by analyzing Person’s correlation coefficient. Student’s t-test with a level of significance of P