The sonographic medical act

The Italian Society of Ultrasonography in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB) and the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (SIRM) have jointly deemed it appropriate to prepare a document on the sonographic medical act outlining the characteristics of the said act and the physician sonologist’s education and competencies. Over the last 10 years, SIUMB and SIRM have organized training activities in the field of diagnostic sonographic imaging. SIUMB was founded in 1987 and has among its institutional purposes that of stimulating and developing studies of the application of sonography in the field of Medicine and Biology. Since its foundation in 1913, SIRM has had among its institutional aims the cultural updating of Radiology specialists and training in the study of biomedical imaging, including sonography, in terms of the physical, biological and diagnostic features as well as radiation protection and computerization. SIUMB and SIRM have organized—and still organize—numerous joint training activities aimed at the development of sonographic imaging and training of physician sonologists. The two societies represent about 14,000 physicians whose professional activity is clearly defined and documented. It is, therefore, the responsibility of these two scientific Societies to issue a joint document stating the characteristics of the sonographic medical act and the education of physician sonologists