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Academic Remediation

Highlights Recognize red flags in resident applications. Identify early indicators of struggling learners in resident assessments. Describe how using focused experts fo...

A Simplified Approach to Encephalitis and Its Mimics

Rationale and Objectives Infectious encephalitis is a relatively common cause of morbidity and mortality. Treatment of infectious encephalitis with antiviral medication can be highly effective whe...

A Near-peer Point-of-care Ultrasound Elective for Medical Students Impact on Anatomy Knowledge, Perceptions About Ultrasound, and Self-reported Skill Level

Rationale and Objectives We aimed to assess the impact of our institution’s recently created point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) course for preclinical medical students by examining its effect on fir...

A Leadership Intervention to Further the Training of Female Faculty (LIFT-OFF) in Radiology

Rationale and Objectives Women are under-represented in the field of radiology, occupy a minority of leadership positions, and, at our institution, have not achieved the same level of academic suc...

Ventricular Geometry From Non-contrast Non-ECG-gated CT Scans

Rationale and Objectives Imaging-based assessment of cardiovascular structure and function provides clinically relevant information in smokers. Non-cardiac-gated thoracic computed tomographic (CT)...

Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Prioritizing Imaging Tests in Diagnosis of Suspected Appendicitis

Rationale and Objectives In clinical guideline or criteria development processes, such as those used in developing American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria (ACR AC), experts subjecti...

Toward a Framework for Benefit-Risk Assessment in Diagnostic Imaging

Highlights Standardizing diagnostic test-related benefits and risks may improve decision making. Benefit-risk assessment (BRA) in diagnostic radiology involves multiple criteria....

The American College of Radiology Incidental Findings Committee Recommendations for Management of Incidental Lymph Nodes

Rationale and Objectives To assess the American College of Radiology Incidental Findings Committee’s (ACR-IFC) recommendations for defining and following up abnormal incidental abdominopelvic lymp...

Teaching and Assessing Professionalism in Radiology Resident Education

Radiologists in teaching hospitals and in practices with residents rotating through are involved in the education of their residents. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requir...

Role of Imaging in the Era of Precision Medicine

Precision medicine is an emerging approach for treating medical disorders, which takes into account individual variability in genetic and environmental factors. Preventive or therapeutic interventi...