The ABR Board of Trustees (BOT) is adding two members: Steven J. Frank, MD, and Ashok Gupta, MD. Both appointments take effect at the fall board meeting in October. Dr. Frank is an endowed tenured professor of radiation oncology and holds the Bessie McGoldrick Professorship in Clinical Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson…
By Robert Martin, MPH With the heart-pounding excitement of National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match Week 2023 in the near past and bright futures ahead, this is a time of calm before the storm. The storm takes different form for different people, but in this highly competitive year, diagnostic radiology has left a wake of…
A graduate of the Air Force Academy and Harvard Medical School, Rob Smalley, MD, knows what it takes to succeed. He further proved that when he passed the ABR Diagnostic Radiology Qualifying (Core) Exam last May. Dr. Smalley, who’s in a diagnostic radiology residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and will start a pediatric radiology…
By Kristen McConnell, PhD As the plane touched down in Tucson, I did not feel the fear or trepidation that many before me have experienced when flying into Arizona. Instead of taking an ABR exam, I was there to look at giant cacti and see what happens at the organization’s headquarters. I checked into the…
By Gloria Jang Medical school and the road ahead present unique challenges. While most people start medical school with a specific trajectory in mind, some, like me, find that the journey winds in a different direction than planned. Prior to medical school, I was never interested in the gym; I just liked to have a…
By Courtney Wing Every March, medical students across the nation wake up a little more tachycardic than usual, but this time, it’s not from our energy drinks or an impending nine-hour exam. It’s the day the National Resident Matching Program shares our fate with us. For some of us, the news contains the best words…
From being uncertain about his direction as a fourth-year medical student to earning a top honor from the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), Lane Donnelly, MD, has come a long way. Dr. Donnelly, a longtime SPR volunteer and former ABR trustee, didn’t latch on to radiology until January of his final medical school year. He…
An odd and frightening incident that occurred when she was a youngster in a foreign country helped make Desiree Morgan, MD, who she is today. At age 5, Dr. Morgan was injured, along with her brother and mother, when an unmanned small pickup truck rolled backward down a hill and hit them. Her family was…
There are several reasons why Jordan Mackner might not have enrolled in medical school last year: Obstacles slowed but didn’t stop Jordan, who’s now a first-year medical student at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. At age 38, he appreciates his unconventional route, which included working as a chiropractor in Scottsdale, Arizona, from 2012-’16…
Physicians and physicists enjoy their jobs for many reasons. On Valentine’s Day, a few share what they love about their work. Jennifer Bellon, MDHarvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “I love many things about my job: the ability to help patients at a critical time in their lives, the complexity of oncologic decision-making, and…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program searches for the best medical-school graduates with an eye on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology & Radiological Sciences and Vice Chair of Diversity Affairs Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Marques Bradshaw, MD, has been part of the selection process at Vanderbilt since…
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