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More news from Arab Health; screening mammo and health risks; benefits of image exchange

By Brian Casey

January 29, 2014

ACR announces student loan refinancing program

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is teaming with Social Finance to offer its members a program to refinance medical student loan debt.

January 29, 2014

Arab Health: UAE resident program finds its own way

By Eric Barnes

DUBAI - Even in the best of circumstances, setting up a radiology resident training program can be a challenge. But for a large regional hospital in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a transient international staff and no experience or particular preferences with regard to training, the job can be more than daunting.

January 27, 2014

Review of job board ads confirms radiology's tight labor market

By Eric Barnes

Radiology residents aren't imagining the shortage of radiology jobs; on the contrary, the mismatch between available jobs and job seekers appears to be real and persistent, at least on the American College of Radiology job board, according to a new report in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

January 15, 2014

Residents at odds with ABR regarding protected study time

By Eric Barnes

Residents aren't marching in lockstep with the new American Board of Radiology (ABR) policy when it comes to study time for the new core exam, according to results of a survey of residents and faculty at a Pennsylvania hospital that were presented at the 2013 RSNA meeting.

January 7, 2014

SNMMI launches new training grant

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has introduced a new training grant for nuclear medicine physics residents.

January 6, 2014

Should residency spots in radiology be reduced?

By Saurabh Jha, MD

The radiology job market appears to be heading for a crisis, with some graduating trainees facing the prospect of no job after five years of specialized training. But what should be done about it? In this editorial opinion article, Dr. Saurabh Jha addresses the tightening job market and offers some solutions.

January 5, 2014

Survey shows stable radiology job market

By Eric Barnes

Residents may not be thrilled about the tough job market, but data from a massive annual survey of radiology jobs show little change from year to year, and the results even predict a small net gain in jobs for 2013 and beyond, according to a presentation at the recent RSNA 2013 meeting.

December 30, 2013

Residents' burnout shows up on fMRI scans

By Eric Barnes

In the first study to examine physician burnout using functional MRI (fMRI), researchers found that residents' clinical reasoning is more profoundly affected by the syndrome than that of faculty physicians. Results were published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

December 16, 2013

Resident core exams: A prep strategy that works

By Eric Barnes

The new residency accreditation process that began last July has upended the process of becoming a radiologist -- in part by establishing a third-year core exam that few residents have had to deal with yet. But Dr. Chris Stephens has already gone there, not only completing the test but living to tell about it at the RSNA 2013 meeting.

December 11, 2013

Fogarty Institute touts 2014 endovascular fellowship

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The Fogarty Institute for Innovation, in conjunction with El Camino Hospital's Norma Melchor Heart and Vascular Institute and VIVA Physicians, is accepting applications for its Advanced Endovascular Training Fellowship.

December 11, 2013

Breaking bad news: Some docs are more willing than others

By Eric Barnes

It's no surprise that residents and radiologists don't like breaking bad news to patients with serious medical conditions. But a survey from Pakistan suggests some types of medical specialists are more willing to tell patients the awful truth, while others pass the job along to the referring physician.

November 13, 2013

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