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TheBody MRI Fellowship program at Northwestern University and Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) in Chicago has eight one-year positions. We will begin accepting applications for the 2025-2026 application season on 11/1/23 and will be doing virtual interviews for this fellowship year beginning the week of January 8th 2024 in accordance with SCARD guidelines.

Fellows rotate through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) imaging during the course of the year with the main focus of the fellowship on body MR imaging. The MR experience includes abdominal and pelvic examinations. CT examinations include all non-neurological applications including abdominal, pelvic, and chest CT. Ultrasound includes abdominal and pelvic, thyroid, testes, and vascular/transplant applications. To see videos of our alumni describing their fellowship experience, check out our YouTube channel:

The majority of the fellowship (over six months) is focused on abdominal and pelvic body MR. The body fellows also rotate through computed tomography (CT) imaging, ultrasound (US) and musculoskeletal radiology (if desired) during the course of one year with the main focus of the fellowship on MR imaging. The MR focus is inclusive of hepatic MR exams focusing on liver lesion characterization diagnosis and staging of liver tumors, hepatobiliary imaging, pancreatic imaging, renal and adrenal imaging, MR enterography and urography, transplantation, rectal cancer and fistula imaging and female and male pelvic imaging.

Innovative functional imaging techniques at NMH include routine use of diffusion weighted imaging, MR elastography and 3T MRI imaging including prostate MR with fusion using the Uronav system and PET MR. The MR experience encompasses chest, abdominal, pelvic and musculoskeletal examinations. CT examinations are inclusive of all non-neurological applications of the abdominal, chest and musculoskeletal areas. Ultrasound includes abdominal and pelvic, thyroid, testes, musculoskeletal, and vascular applications. A month of elective time is provided. During this time, fellows can work in a variety of areas such as neuroradiology, breast imaging, cardiac imaging and interventional radiology amongst other numerous options.

The fellow is responsible for all aspects of the body imaging exams, including protocols, monitoring of studies, exam interpretation and dictation and patient issues. The fellow has graduated responsibility and acts under the direct supervision of 19 faculty members. The faculty is fellowship trained with subspecialty fellowships, including body imaging, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal radiology. Our highly trained staff includes full-time certified technologists, full-time RN coverage and reading room assistants.

Fellows benefit from expertise in the variety of top-ranked clinical areas at Northwestern, including urology, gastroenterology, vascular surgery, transplant surgery, oncology, orthopedics and sports medicine. In addition, there is a high-level collaborative MR research program with Siemens. Opportunities for clinical research and academic time are available and our fellows often participate in at least one project leading to a presentation at national radiology meetings and/or publications.

The high number and complexity of exams allow the fellows to learn a large variety of material. We currently have several imaging conferences a week that are suitable for the fellowship level. These include a weekly Body Imaging conference during which interesting cases are reviewed, a weekly didactic conference for the fellows, a weekly interdepartmental GI/GI oncology conference, a weekly urologic oncology conference, a biweekly gynecologic oncology conference and a monthly Soft Tissue Sarcoma Imaging conference. There are a variety of other departmental and interdepartmental conferences that are available to the fellows. The fellow is expected to be an active part of resident and medical student teaching on the rotations.

This fellowship is also committed to inclusion, physician wellness, fostering career development and mentorship. Following this fellowship, the fellows are well prepared for the best academic and private practice positions across the country.

This fellowship program does not participate in the match. Applications will be accepted after November 1. Please note that no interviews will be conducted before January 2024 as recommended by SCARD. As we anticipate high demand for January virtual interview slots, interested applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. If you are interested in applying, please contact us at 312-695-5978 or see below. Applicants will need to send the following materials to the fellowship coordinator at Kathryn...@nm.org

Housestaff training through McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University provides diverse and challenging clinical experiences and world-class education located in the heart of the beautiful city of Chicago. Learn more via the links to the McGaw website below.

Radiopaedia is a wiki-based international collaborative educational web resource containing a radiology encyclopedia and imaging case repository.[1] It is currently the largest freely available radiology related resource in the world with more than 50,000 patient cases and over 16,000 reference articles on radiology-related topics. The open edit nature of articles allows radiologists, radiology trainees, radiographers, sonographers, and other healthcare professionals interested in medical imaging to refine most content through time. An editorial board peer reviews all contributions.[2]

Radiopaedia was started as a past-time project to store radiology notes and cases online by the Australian neuroradiologist Associate Professor Frank Gaillard in December 2005, while he was a radiology resident.[3][4] Frank built a Linux server to host the site.[5] He then programmed the site using MediaWiki, the same program platform as Wikipedia.[6]

Frank later became passionate in building the website and decided to release it on the web, advocating free dissemination of knowledge.[3][4] The domain name for radiopaedia.org was registered on 11 January 2007.[7] Frank initially allowed the site to be freely editable by anyone. Together with Maryanne McHugh from Toshiba Australia, Frank funded the bandwidth of the website.[5] Frank later hired a friend in 2008 to code the website for him using Ruby on Rails and the site codebase was later switched from MediaWiki to a bespoke code written by his friend. His friend later founded a company called TrikeApps to maintain the Radiopedia codebase.[6][5]

The Radiopaedia.org platform and text content are owned by Radiopaedia Australia Pty Ltd, a privately held company for which Gaillard is the chief executive officer.[8] One of its investors is Investling and its revenue derives from ads, courses, and paid supporters.[9][10] For image content, contributors reserve some rights and license the content to Radiopaedia and its users under a Creative Commons license.[8]

Similarly to Wikipedia, registered users of the site are allowed to freely add and edit the majority of the content. This allows content to be progressively upgraded over years and for radiologists and society, in general, to continuously refine article content through time. The site also allows registered users to maintain their own personal case library of teaching cases.[13] Rather than individually publishing articles, users are encouraged to integrate content with links to cases and journal articles and collaboratively refine content.[14] In an attempt to reduce vandalism and to peer-review content, an editorial board moderates changes to ensure that the presented material is as accurate and relevant as possible.[15] As with similar open edit sites, unreliability of content has been a concern;[citation needed] however, despite its open edit nature, it is ranked relatively high among user reviews.[16][17]

A survey done in 2020 shows that 90% of on-call radiology trainees in the United States are using Radiopedia and StatDx as the first and second line options to help them during their work.[18] Educational benefit was also demonstrated when integrating Radiopedia-based training in medical curriculum.[19]

In 2009, the first Radiopaedia iOS app series was released in two volumes. These apps package cases and articles for users to review and have sample questions and answers.[21][22] More volumes were released subsequently.[23]

In 2019, nine out of 163 medical students surveyed in a single institution in Canada stated that they would use a radiology app for mobile learning such as "Figure 1", "Night in the ED" and "Radiopaedia" and will be willing to pay for a radiology app.[25]

Step 5: While recording, scroll through your imaging study making sure to include everything you want to display. I recommend scrolling through by clicking the arrows on the keyboard rather than using the mouse, as the cursor may accidentally enter the image field and therefore appear in your presentation.

PowerPoint has improved over the years, and videos are now automatically embedded with your presentation when you save your .PPTx file. You may need to save your presentation file to DropBox, Google Drive or another cloud storage app as the file size is usually too large to send via email.

Overseas Radiologists wanting to secure a role in the UK via the postgraduate qualification route will need to attain Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists or FRCR in order to register with the GMC. FRCR is the UK Royal College qualification and the recommended route for radiologists looking to work in the UK as a specialist or consultant.

The FRCR examinations form an essential component of training for Radiologists in the UK. For overseas doctors relocating to the UK, the FRCR is one of two options to support full GMC registration (postgraduate qualification or PLAB route). For doctors who wish to secure a senior clinical radiology job in the NHS reflective of their current practice, we advise that FRCR would be the best route to choose. FRCR is often an essential requirement for jobs in radiology such as breast, cardiac, interventional, musculoskeletal and so on.

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