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Experienced AEDs Fill Important Roles as Staff
They have decades of combined experience in their fields. They have spent years as ABR volunteers, working on committees and as oral examiners. Now, they are part-time staff who serve as associate executive directors (AEDs), helping connect the ABR with its many stakeholders. Paul Wallner, DO, is the AED with most tenure, having held the…
ABR Trustee Seeing COVID’s Impacts at Home
By Catheryn Yashar, MD My healthy husband’s first cough was March 9, 2020. Thankfully, he has nearly recovered. That day he was worried, so he wandered down to the ER and was reassured the virus “isn’t here yet.” He called in sick the next day. Five days later, he was either sleeping or coughing. Meals…
Four Ways to Make the Most of Your Radiology Residency
By Hala Mazin, MD The resident match is one of the most exciting times in your medical school career. It is what you have been working so hard to reach for the last four years! This virtual match season poses new challenges; it may be difficult to decipher your best fit and which program will…
Survey Respondents Give OLA 4.1 Rating
Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) has been around for two years, including an entire year when diplomates from all four specialties participated. With more than 3.5 million answers submitted, many participants say it has been an effective way of satisfying Part 3 of Maintenance of Certification. More than 6,000 diplomates participated in a recent survey in…
Diplomate: OLA Provides Real-World Way of Learning
By Summer Kaplan, MD Part of the ABR’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process, Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) is a step forward for our profession. OLA aligns our board requirements with how radiologists currently learn: online and in real time. Maintaining updated knowledge is core to our jobs as radiologists. It takes effort to maintain the…
Diplomate: Trust the Science and Take the COVID-19 Vaccine
By Leah Braswell, MD “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” –Coretta Scott King Growing up, nearly everyone in our small town got their vaccines at my dad’s clinic. A self-described “country” doctor, Dad brought pig hearts to our classes to teach anatomy, responded to playground…
New RSNA President Optimistic Despite 2021 Uncertainty
When Mary Mahoney, MD, discusses her plans for 2021 as the new Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) president, she says things are “up in the air.” Interestingly, that’s one place she won’t spend much time this year despite the organization’s global reach. COVID-19, of course, is to blame. With in-person meetings shut down across…