29th Annual Duke Radiology Review Course

 The mission of the Department of Radiology is to deliver high-quality medical care to our patients, educate health-care professionals, and increase our understanding of health and disease.

We hold these goals in concert with all other clinical departments in the Medical Center. In addition, our mission is distinctive in that we are responsible for the introduction of new technology related to imaging. This requires innovative development, honest evaluation, and ongoing teaching of the medical applications of these technological developments.

Patients are the reason for our department’s existence, and must be accorded the central role in our professional activities. We are first and foremost responsible to our patients and consulting physicians. Our paramount mission is to provide competent, courteous, and compassionate clinical services which are uniformly of the highest quality. We must respond to requests for services from patients and referring physicians promptly and intelligently. Clinical responsibilities to individual patients take precedence over all other demands.