Focus on Life-Long Learning and Self-Assessment

Abstract

483 issues, the SAMs will be focused on noninterpretive skills. This will include patient safety, contrast reactions, and other noninterpretive skills topics. There are too few of these SAMs currently available, yet one of the five modules on the cognitive examination (Part III of MOC) is on this topic whereas the other four modules are clinical and based on the individual’s practice profile. Dr. Felix Chew, Section Editor of AJR Integrative Imaging, has agreed to head this new section in AJR, which he will coordinate with the section editor of the highlighted issues in advance. This new approach will provide more than the required SAMs for our readers each year. Additional SAMs will be available at the ARRS, Radiological Society of North America, and subspecialty society meetings. Our journal and the ARRS should also look at the additional changes proposed by the ABMS regarding Part II of MOC to determine if we can provide our readership with assistance in all areas. We must remain on the forefront and evolve with changes as they are required to maintain ourselves as physicians, improve patient care, and continually improve our practices and the confidence of the public in American medicine. Thomas H. Berquist Editor in Chief ajrsubmit@arrs.org DOI:10.2214/AJR.10.6334