Navigating professional growth for women in radiology: A practical guide for mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching.

Historically, women in radiology are underrepresented in radiology and face disproportionate barriers to career advancement related to work-life integration, gender bias, and relative lack of female role models. Given these challenges, women must be proactive and seek out mentorship and sponsorship to help navigate career obstacles and to guide career direction. At times of inflection, coaching can play a role in helping to clarify next steps through self-discovery of one's strengths, limitations, and desired goals.

Defining the Roles and Responsibilities for the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs/Faculty Development in Radiology.

Rationale And Objectives: To inform the development of a job description for Vice-Chairs for academic affairs (VCAA), members of the Alliance of Leaders in Academic Affairs in Radiology (ALAAR) were surveyed to better understand their current job responsibilities and how they would ideally allocate their professional time.

Materials And Methods: Based on a survey of 33 university-affiliated radiology departments and discussion among ALAAR members, the authors developed a detailed job description for the VCAA. The 21-question survey was composed and validated by experts in the field.

Overcoming Midcareer Malaise: The Value of Personal Rediscovery.

Midcareer faculty development is critical for continued career vitality and retention. However, limited formal programming exists to meet the needs of this group, which is at risk of experiencing a lack of career self-identity and a sense of being stuck. These feelings may lead radiologists to consider a change in practice type or location or even to exit the radiologist workforce.

Affecting Change: Enhancing Feedback Interactions with Radiology Trainees.

Feedback is a critical part of the learning process and is a valuable tool to empower adult learners. Modern feedback theory places the learner at the center of the feedback encounter. Individual and institutional barriers to effective giving and receiving of feedback can be overcome through education and attention to the form and content of feedback.

Talking Points: Enhancing Communication Between Radiologists and Patients.

Radiologists communicate along multiple pathways, using written, verbal, and non-verbal means. Radiology trainees must gain skills in all forms of communication, with attention to developing effective professional communication in all forms. This manuscript reviews evidence-based strategies for enhancing effective communication between radiologists and patients through direct communication, written means and enhanced reporting.

Strengthening the Clinical Learning Environment by Mandate-Implementing the ACGME Common Program Requirements.

Rationale: Three years ago, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) introduced updated Common Program Requirements in recognition of the need to further promote resident and faculty member well-being and patient safety. The ACGME acknowledged residencies would need time to comply with new requirements. This grace period, however, concluded as of July 1, 2019, and programs now risk citations for failure to implement new requirements.

ACGME Diagnostic Radiology Milestones 2.0: the Time is Now.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education oversees graduate medical education in the United States. Designed to provide broad based training in all aspects of imaging, the diagnostic radiology residency program must provide educational experiences that not only provide technical, professional, and patient centered training, but also meet accreditation standards. With the breadth of material to cover during training, carefully orchestrated educational experiences must be planned.

Structured Reports and Radiology Residents: Friends or Foes?

Structured reports offer overall improvement in quality and safety, largely centered upon more effective communication. Structured reporting is helpful to trainees as a method to develop organized search patterns and include pertinent positive and negative findings. However, limitations of structured report use include lack of development of individualized search patterns and failure to recognize key elements of the report to be formulated in the impression.

Auditing RadExam: Employing Psychometrics to Improve Exam Quality.

Introduction: RadExam is a question item and exam database jointly developed by the Association of Program Directors in Radiology and the American College of Radiology to provide formative resident assessment, offering performance metrics benchmarked against institutional and national resident performance. Beyond resident performance, data is available on question and exam performance. Despite considerable investment in the education and training of its question writers and editors and meticulous attention to current psychometrically validated methods, it was anticipated a minority of exam questions would still perform poorly.

Web-based Conferencing: Tips, Tricks, and Scenario-based Best Practices for Clinicians During a Pandemic Crisis.

This article will familiarize the reader with useful tools and trouble-shooting tips for web-based conferencing. Radiology-based scenarios for web conferencing are also provided.

Vice Chair for Education: Twelve Roles to Provide a Framework for Success.

Rationale And Objectives: An increase in the administrative work in our healthcare system has led to an increase in the number of administrative positions in radiology departments. Many of these are Vice Chair roles, including Vice Chair for Education (VCEd). The responsibility of this position has expanded, often far beyond the original definition.

Running a Radiology Residency Program: Strategies for Success.

Running a successful radiology residency program requires departments to navigate the evolving educational landscape at the departmental, institutional, and national levels. To attract the best applicants, departments must invest time and money to support the leadership of the program and its faculty to provide innovative educational opportunities in a positive learning environment while simultaneously complying with all of the requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The key administrative requirements of a successful radiology residency program are described and can be grouped into (a) essential administrative components, (b) the clinical learning environment review and self-study process, and (c) resident recruitment.

Imaging of nontraumatic acute hip pain in children: multimodality approach with attention to the reduction of medical radiation exposure.

Nontraumatic acute hip pain in children is common. However, the presentation and etiology is variable, including difficulty with weight bearing and abnormal gait. Barriers in communication, multiple possible etiologies, and age-specific anatomical variations of the pediatric hip make the evaluation of hip pain in children a difficult clinical diagnosis.

Nontraumatic abdominal pain in pregnancy: imaging considerations for a multiorgan system problem.

Nontraumatic abdominal pain in the pregnant patient can present a clinician with a variety of diagnostic possibilities. The overlap between signs and symptoms expected in normal pregnancy and these many pathologic possibilities does little to help focus the clinician's diagnostic efforts. Fear of ionizing radiation's effects on the fetus has driven efforts to refine medical imaging algorithms in such a way as to attempt to eliminate its use at all cost.

Interpretation of head CT scans in the emergency department by fellows versus general staff non-neuroradiologists: a closer look at the effectiveness of a quality control program.

Prior studies have evaluated discordance rates among radiology residents in interpretation of head computed tomograms (CTs). To our knowledge, there has been no study to compare performance among first-year fellows and more experienced general staff radiologists. This study will compare performances of these groups and evaluate the effect of a redundant system as part of a quality control program.