Update of the AMSER National Medical Student Curriculum.

Since the first steps of creating the Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology (AMSER) curriculum 20 years ago, dramatic advances in medical imaging, patient care, and medical education have occurred necessitating an update of this valuable resource. The 2020 update of the AMSER curriculum aims to address as many of these changes while providing a succinct resource that will hopefully remain useful for years to come. The updated AMSER curriculum document is freely available for download via the AMSER website at https://www.

Innovation Born in Isolation: Rapid Transformation of an In-Person Medical Student Radiology Elective to a Remote Learning Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Rationale And Objectives: With social distancing measures in place both nationally and globally, the current COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of in-person classes at universities and medical schools across the country. This has presented unique challenges for educators in all fields as they have embarked, many for the first time, on the journey into remote education in order to provide distance learning opportunities for students.

Materials And Methods: In this article we will review our approach to rapidly converting an in-person diagnostic radiology elective to an entirely remote learning experience for medical students at our institution, including modification of course structure, software tools and materials utilized, and strategies for learner engagement and collaboration.

How Does the Current Generation of Medical Students View the Radiology Match?: An Analysis of the AuntMinnie and Student Doctor Network Online Forums.

Rationale And Objectives: The AuntMinnie (AM) and the Student Doctor Network (SDN) online forums are popular resources for medical students applying for residency. The purpose of this study was to describe medical student radiology-related posts on AM and SDN to better understand the medical student perspective on the application and Match process.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed all posts made on the AM and SDN online forums over 5 consecutive academic years from July 2012 to July 2017.

Radial Artery Pseudoaneurysm with Aberrant Radial Artery Anatomy: An Unusual Presentation of Flexor Tenosynovitis.

 Radial artery pseudoaneurysm is uncommon and mainly associated with radial artery cannulization for cardiac intervention or invasive hemodynamic monitoring. It is rarely seen as a result of intra-arterial recreational drug injection.  We present the case of a 35-year-old man with a 12-year history of intravenous drug use and 1-year history of intra-arterial drug use who developed radial artery pseudoaneurysm with a right long finger suppurative flexor tenosynovitis and subsequent acute radial-sided hand ischemia.

Assessing Medical Student Knowledge of Imaging Modality Selection Before and After a General Radiology Elective: A Comparison of MS-IIs, MS-IIIs, and MS-IVs.

Rationale And Objectives: Correct selection of imaging tests is essential f or clinicians but until recently has been largely neglected in medical education. How and when students acquire such non-interpretive skills are unknown. This study will assess student knowledge of imaging test selection before and after a general radiology elective.

A simple pre-operative imaging method to assess donor and recipient anatomy in hemi-hamate arthroplasty for proximal interphalangeal joint reconstruction.

Purpose: Post-traumatic arthritis is common in long-term follow-up of patients undergoing hemi-hamate arthroplasty (HHA). We hypothesize that anatomic mismatch could play a role in the development of arthritis. The purpose of this study is to establish a novel, computed tomography (CT)-based imaging technique for pre-operative assessment in HHA.

Strategic improvements for gross anatomy web-based teaching.

Current generations of graduate students have been immersed in technology from their early school years and have high expectations regarding digital resources. To better meet the expectations of Gross Anatomy students at our institution, electronic radiology teaching files for first-year coursework were organized into a web site. The web site was custom designed to provide material that directly correlated to the Gross Anatomy dissection and lectures.

Developing a radiology-based teaching approach for gross anatomy in the digital era.

Rationale And Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the implementation of a digital anatomy lecture series based largely on annotated, radiographic images and the utility of the Radiological Society of North America-developed Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC) for providing an online educational resource.

Materials And Methods: A series of digital teaching images were collected and organized to correspond to lecture and dissection topics. MIRC was used to provide the images in a Web-based educational format for incorporation into anatomy lectures and as a review resource.

Chest radiographic anatomy retention: the impact of preclinical groundwork on clinical recall in two schools.

Rationale And Objectives: The aim of this study was to verify earlier work on learning and retaining chest radiographic anatomy introduced during preclinical education and revisited in the clinical years by comparing the initial clinical group to clinical students in a second setting who had no preclinical exposure.

Materials And Methods: One hundred thirty-seven clinical medical students were pretested and posttested on the same 10 items as were used in the first study. Scores on these 10-item standardized pretests and posttests were compared and assessed for statistical significance.

Radiology corner. Answer to last month's radiology case and image: gun shot wound to the chest of a military working dog.

This Military Working Dog (MWD) was shot in the chest during combat operations in Iraq. Military Working Dogs are critical to the safety and well-being of deployed troops in combat operations and, as such, they are triaged and treated in our combat hospitals just like any other soldier; their speciation is not a factor in their triage status. This case familiarizes military physicians with the basic canine anatomy, positioning, and radiological technique they should be aware of before deploying.

Building a Vertical Advisory system: how to succeed as an educator and mentor without going insane.

Creating and using a Vertical Advisory system allows students and residents to obtain rapid and effective responses to questions or requests for advice. It also encourages this group to become active advisors, teachers, and mentors to those behind them, in the hopes of nurturing strong future academic role models and mentors.

Learning and retaining normal radiographic chest anatomy: does preclinical exposure improve student performance?

Rationale And Objectives: Although most would concur that preclinical exposure to radiology is a desirable goal, specific learning objectives have been more difficult to delineate. It is also important to assess what is learned and to determine how well it is retained or "retrievable." This study was developed in an attempt to document the extent to which specific measures of preclinically acquired knowledge may be retained and retrieved for later clinical application.

Clinical utility of a stability-based ankle fracture classification system.

Objective: Neither of the ankle fracture classification systems (Lauge-Hansen or Weber) in widespread use today is prognostic. To test the hypothesis that ankle fracture prognosis is dependent on initial biomechanical stability, an alternative classification system created using stability-based treatment criteria was developed on the basis of a structured analysis of the ankle fracture literature.

Data Sources: All English-language papers reporting on ankle fractures (searched using the terms "ankle + fracture") published between 1966 and 2005 with available online abstracts via PubMed were screened.