Radiology residents are no slackers when it comes to “giving back.” However, many seem to believe they must travel abroad to find medically underserved populations in serious need of charitable medical care.
Rads should learn more about employment negotiations before signing a contract, says Seetharam Chadalavada, MD, vice chair of radiology informatics at the University of Cincinnati.
The National Imaging Informatics Course is designed for fourth-year radiology residents, but is also relevant to any mid- or senior-level professional working with image data.
An educational outfit has sprung up to equip nonphysicians working in radiology—chiefly administrators, business managers and technologists—with radiologist-level fluency in AI.
Clinicians injecting or aspirating joints of the upper extremities should know that imaging is a more precise guide to the target than palpation—and that ultrasound guidance offers potential advantages over aid from other imaging modalities.
MRI technologists serving patients who have difficulty understanding English may need to budget additional scanner time—especially when image quality largely depends on patients’ compliance with breathing instructions.
Point-of-care MRI is a worthwhile diagnostic option for emergency departments and ICUs concerned about wait or transport times to access fixed MRI for patients with neuroimaging needs.
JACR asked three experts on radiologist compensation for a written answer to a pressing question: In creating the ideal practice-level P4P program in 2022, what elements must be considered, avoided and emphasized?
Surveying the landscape of well-paying jobs in reach of individuals with two-year degrees, a popular technology-business news outlet has found three of the top 10 exist within the radiological sphere.
Data scientists and software engineers at the University of Arkansas have been awarded more than $140,000 by the NIH to educate biomedical researchers on the growing role of AI in big-data analytics.
Close to 90% of family-medicine departments at U.S. medical schools employ one or more faculty members trained in point-of-care ultrasound, including 7% that are presently training at least one (or one more).
"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.
