Education and training in radiological protection for interventional radiology specialists to reduce the risk of radiation damage

Radiation doses are several times higher exposed to interventional radiology specialists than other radiologists,which are mainly resulted from interventional procedure guided by X-ray fluoroscopy and operated on the interventional operating table for a long time. Up to now little attention is paid to radiation protection and safety education in higher medical education system,therefore it is necessary to built up a system of radiological protection and safety education,which is to place teaching in higher medical schools first and vocational training second.