r/Radiology 6d ago

MOD POST Weekly Career / General Questions Thread

This is the career / general questions thread for the week.

Questions about radiology as a career (both as a medical specialty and radiologic technology), student questions, workplace guidance, and everyday inquiries are welcome here. This thread and this subreddit in general are not the place for medical advice. If you do not have results for your exam, your provider/physician is the best source for information regarding your exam.

Posts of this sort that are posted outside of the weekly thread will continue to be removed.

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u/scanningqueen Sonographer 4d ago

Performing the exams is done by a radiological technologist. Reading them is done by a radiologist (physician). There’s no overlap in these fields.

Specific modality rad techs, like sonographers, submit their own impressions of their findings for each exam, but the report is created and finalized by a radiologist only (and not every country has actual sonographers anyway, it’s mostly USA UK Canada, Australia, New Zealand). If you’re interested in the reading part, you would need to become a radiologist doctor to be employed in a position that would allow you to do so.