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Dr. Chan’s Six Ways for Physicians to Grow Their Social Media Audiences
By Tiffany Chan, MD Let’s face it: No one knows what we do. Aspiring medical students don’t know how to become diagnostic radiologists. Other physicians think we’re a bunch of introverts in dark rooms. The public thinks their OB-GYN reads their mammograms, because they’re the ones who say, “Your mammogram looks good!” So how can…
Twitter Takeover Provides Opportunity to Share Student Perspective
By Victoria Bry I became drawn to the therapeutic medical physicist field for many reasons. I am humbled by the opportunity to work on a diverse radiation oncology team that includes physicists, radiation oncologists, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, engineers, nurses, medical assistants, and more. I am excited about participating in research to ensure the highest quality…
Surprisingly Hit with COVID, She’s Happy to Be Vaccinated
By Hala Mazin, MD It was life as usual for me as a PGY-5 radiology resident living out my favorite residency year! I biked to work on Monday August 16 like I have been doing this whole summer. I got to work sneezing with mild congestion, which was nothing peculiar; after all, I biked by…
Rotation Confirms that Radiology Is Her Future
By Emily Van Antwerp At the beginning of my third-year clerkships, I was undecided about which specialty to pursue for my career. My mother-in-law, an MRI technologist, suggested I shadow physicians at her clinic. Radiology quickly captured my interest. For the remainder of the semester, I devoted my free time to shadowing and learning from…
Misunderstood to Ms. Understood: Hopes and Goals of a Woman in Medicine
By Elizabeth Russ, MD Being female and living in a male-dominated world can be complicated. We often feel misunderstood; our equality efforts are about building up women, not tearing down men. Women have come a long way in the world of medicine. As I am sure many of you know, women make up 50.5% of…
Original Member of MP Advisory Committee Still Happy to Lend a Hand
An original member of the ABR’s Medical Physics Initial Certification Advisory Committee, Samantha Simiele, PhD, jumped at the chance to contribute when invited to become part of the group in 2016. “Joining the team allowed me to contribute to a process so integral to the medical physics profession and at such an early stage in my career,” said Dr. Simiele, who…
Our Mission Becomes More Focused by Working with Associations and Societies
By Cheri L. Canon, MD, ABR Governor, and David Laszakovits, MBA, ABR Communications Director The ABR relies on relationships with our colleagues across the radiologic disciplines to provide perspectives at multiple levels. Some of these are informal, including those with our volunteers who have leadership roles in specialty societies. Others are more defined, such as…
A Few Tips for OLA Participants
Continuing Certification requires lifelong learning and a cognitive assessment of the knowledge of practicing physicians and physicists. The Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) instrument developed by the ABR is designed to test knowledge and provide learning. The explanations given after each item are the consensus of a committee of experts in the area being tested. As of…
One Busy Year Later, ABR Executive Director Knows There’s Plenty More to Do
Brent Wagner, MD, MBA, completed his first year as the ABR’s executive director in June. He recently took time to offer a few thoughts about his experience in the position so far. How unusual has it been having a largely remote workforce since your first day here? Much of the work we do at the…
ABR Board Approves Residency Leave Policy
By Vincent P. Mathews, MD, ABR President This past weekend, the ABR Board of Governors culminated months of partnership with stakeholders by approving a residency leave policy that allows residents with up to eight weeks (40 workdays) of time off per academic year to remain eligible for Initial Certification without an extension of training. The…
Awardee: Humanism a Necessity in Medicine
Brooke Burkins, MS, recently earned the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Gold Humanism Honor Society Award. This peer-nominated award is given to someone who is humanistic, compassionate, and an advocate for people facing diverse barriers in healthcare. Medical students, residents, and physician leaders are inducted into this honor society to serve as role models for the…
LGBTQIA+ Community Concerned About All Marginalized Populations
By Toni Marie Roth, MS If you had told me a few years ago that I would be writing a blog for the ABR regarding my upcoming AAPM presentation on “The Intersection of Race and LGBTQIA+,” I would not have known how to respond. As a proud Puerto Rican, culturally Jewish person who identifies as…
Radiation was a Beam of Hope for ABR Employee
Being 6-foot-5 and towering over most other people is a dream for many Americans. For ABR Software Developer Casey Baker, it was a warning sign. Baker grew an unlikely four inches between ages 21 and 28. He also experienced chronic fatigue and decreased energy, prompting him to seek a medical opinion in January 2016. What…
First-Time Oral Examiners Make Easy Move to Remote Platform
First-time ABR examiners this spring only experienced in-person oral exams in Louisville or Tucson as candidates. Although their knowledge of the old process is limited, they see many advantages in using the remote format. We reached out to five new examiners to get their thoughts on the platform: Joseph Erinjeri, MD (interventional radiology); Sarah Milgrom,…
IR/DR IC Advisory Committee Ready to Improve Candidate Experience
Eleven enthusiastic and knowledgeable medical professionals have joined our first interventional radiology/diagnostic radiology initial certification advisory committee. They bring unique perspectives and goals to their new volunteer positions. Virginia Commonwealth University Assistant Professor Christopher Bailey, DO, has been working as a Society for Interventional Radiology Early Career Section liaison to the ABR in discussions about remote computer-based…