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Evaluation of Radiology Teachers' Performance and Identification of the “Best Teachers” in a Residency Program

Rationale and Objectives Radiology teachers are well trained in their specialty; however, when working in academic institutions, faculty development and promotion through the education pathway ten...

Designing Radiology Outcomes Studies—Essential Principles

Health outcomes research is essential to align radiology with current standards of high-value patient care, through the assessment of end results of diagnostic tests, interventions, or policy on pa...

Brain Friendly Teaching—Reducing Learner's Cognitive Load

Many didactic lectures induce a cognitive load in learners out of proportion to the content that they need to learn (or can learn) during that teaching session. This is due in part to the content, ...

Automation of Educational Tasks for Academic Radiology

Rationale and Objectives The process of education involves a variety of repetitious tasks. We believe that appropriate computer tools can automate many of these chores, and allow both educators an...

“What Program Directors Think” III Results of the 2014/2015 Annual Surveys of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology (APDR)

Rationale and Objectives The Association of Program Directors in Radiology regularly surveys its members regarding issues of importance to support radiology residency programs and their directors....

The Impact Factory

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Charles Goodhart As academic radiologists, others define us by how we communicate. Our dictated reports and our conversation...

The Impact Factor of Radiological Journals Associations with Journal Content and Other Characteristics Over a Recent 12-Year Period

Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the trends in the impact factor (IF) of radiological journals over a recent 12-year period, including associations between IF and jou...

The Attenuation Distribution Across the Long Axis (ADLA)

Rationale and Objectives Novel image analysis methods may be useful adjuncts to standard cancer treatment response assessment techniques. The attenuation distribution across the long axis (ADLA) i...

Symptomatic Versus Asymptomatic Colorectal Cancer

Rationale and Objectives Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is a robust tool for evaluating colorectal lesions in both screening and diagnostic settings. The purpose of this study was to asse...

Stereotactic Biopsy of Segmental Breast Calcifications

Rationale and Objectives Core needle biopsy results of segmental calcifications on mammography can have direct impact on surgical management. Although dependent on breast size, cancer spanning gre...