Opportunity For Radiologists Research Articles

Ideas and Opportunities for Radiologists--Career and Professional Advising and Medical Education

This article is about two highly diverse radiologists, who fortuitously came together by working as Career and Professional Advisors in the Student Affairs Department of a U.S. medical school. This job opportunity offered each radiologist, albeit for markedly different reasons, a means to transition from full-time Radiology to the opportune world of medical school education. The focus of this paper will be on Career and Professional Advising, while also highlighting the many opportunities for radiologists in current medical school education.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Opportunities for Radiologists in Training

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Opportunities for Radiologists in Training

Modern Ultrasound Diagnostic Procedures in an Interdisciplinary Ultrasound Department: Challenge and Opportunities for Radiologists.

Interdisciplinary ultrasound departments are sources for modern and effective ultrasound diagnostic procedures. Radiologists have a very important role as part of these centers for the establishment of new diagnostic ultrasound modalities like contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), image fusion between US and computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance tomography (MRI), resulting in new interventional procedures. Data acquisition and the development of solutions for PACS are also important points.

The quality movement or making radiology fun again

Quality can be seen as the link between what we do as radiologists and patient health. The radiology quality movement represents an opportunity for radiologists to have more direct influence on patient health, including the quality domains of safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equitability. Focusing on quality allows emergency radiologists to extend outside of the confines of the reading room, thereby enhancing a rewarding and clinically relevant practice.

Global Health and Radiology: A New Paradigm for US Radiology Resident Training

t R l GLOBAL HEALTH RADIOLOGY: DOES IT EXIST? Global health volunteering has often been a clinical endeavor. Radiology global health work has a unique obstacle in that imaging equipment is required and may be expensive for resource-limited countries. But basic diagnostic imaging, specially plain-film radiography nd ultrasound, is an essential eleent in any health care system [14]. Unfortunately, the scarcity of radiologists in global health work is readily apparent, as the World Health Organization estimates that two-thirds of the world lack access to basic diagnostic imaging [5]. Historically, opportunities for radiologists in training and in practice to pursue international volunteer work have been limited. Although there have been some early pioneers (including but not limited to Palmer [6], Reeder [7], Ostensen [8], Diefenthal [9], and Hirsh [10]), only a handful of opportunities exist including the Radiological Society of North America Outreach Foundation [11] and the ACR Goldberg-Reeder Travel Grant [12] for residents. At the same time, interest in global health among medical students and residents is on the rise [13-16]. International health care electives are a desirable component of residency training across all specialties [1723], even demonstrating a positive impact on recruitment [24-26]. Radiology residents, too, are interested in global health experience, but opportunities are scarce [27,28]. Data from the American Medical Association’s FREIDA Online Web site demonstrate that radiology has lagged behind all other major specialties in offering international opportunities during residency training. As of March 2011, only 10% of radiology residency programs that responded (or 4% of all 187 programs) offered international opportunities. By comparison, Table 1 illustrates global health elective offerings in other specialties [29].

Utilization Management in Radiology: Basic Concepts and Applications

With the current constraints on health care resources and emphasis on value for money, resource utilization must be constantly revised and its value demonstrated. For this purpose, utilization management (UM) provides a series of methods to evaluate the appropriateness of health care resources. The ultimate goal of UM is to achieve the best patient outcomes using the most appropriate resources. The implementation of these procedures also targets variation in practice and promotes cost-effective clinical decision making. Inappropriate utilization is a major problem in health care today, particularly in capital-intensive fields such as imaging. High imaging utilization supposes losses to insurers and care-provider organizations and an overload for radiologists, while underutilization carries significant risks for patients, with the potential for a negative impact on outcomes. Imaging use must be assessed as frequently as new technologies arise. Given the fast pace at which this is happening, UM provides a crucial solution for continuous revision and assessment as an integrative process. The authors offer a practical guide for radiologists in UM, describing its role in today's health care finances. The key issue is to present UM as an approach for improvement that could bring benefits to all parties by adding efficiency to the health care delivery process. Utilization management represents an important opportunity for radiologists to be involved in the decision-making process, regulating the use of their services and providing fast feedback to other specialties that rely on imaging as a complement to their clinical practice.

The Diffusion of New Imaging Technologies: A Molecular Imaging Prospective

Molecular imaging is a complex of technologies that will diffuse into clinical practice over the next 10 to 20 years. Because of characteristics of both the technology and the environment, molecular imaging has the potential to be disruptive to conventional radiology practice. Environmental influences, including scientific and clinical characteristics of the technology, the interests of commercial firms, competition among radiologists and with other specialists, and regulation and reimbursement decision making will influence both the pace of diffusion and the eventual success of various molecular imaging technologies. Molecular imaging poses both threats and exciting opportunities for radiologists. Radiologists must decide how they wish to cope with the advent of molecular imaging, choosing for the present among ignoring its potential, attempting to fit molecular imaging into current practice models, or morphing how they practice to accommodate molecular imaging as a part of radiologic practice.

Emerging Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Opportunities for Radiologists

Emerging molecular therapies offer an exciting new challenge to interventional radiologists, who are expected to play an essential role in the targeted delivery of many of these novel drug- and cell-based therapies. Specifically for the treatment of liver tumors, not only are several novel therapies being developed that will require direct intratumoral delivery, but drugs are also being produced to further enhance local delivery by increasing tumor permeability. Some therapies are being developed to inhibit efflux of drugs out of tumors and others to recruit immune cells into or around tumors. In this review, the authors describe the basic science behind these emerging technologies to provide interventional radiologists with a comprehensive background into the types of therapies they will be delivering.

New Database Provides Funding Opportunities for Radiologists

New Database Provides Funding Opportunities for Radiologists