There’s a lot of buzz going around among medical schools as Match 2023 season gets started. That’s nothing new for fourth-year medical student Dylan Weaver. He comes from a long line of beekeepers. “I remember as a kid watching my father and his team of beekeepers raising queen bees,” Weaver said. “I have pretty vivid…
Sara Lami, MD, MPH, moved to the United States in 2014 to start her radiology career as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. After almost a year, she became discouraged and returned to her native Iran. “I was completely lost,” said Dr. Lami, who went home in April 2015 to think about…
Like many people across the United States, Hala Mazin, MD, proudly wears a pink ribbon during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Dr. Mazin, who said pink is her favorite color anyway, knows that the ribbon can remind others to think about the importance of cancer screenings. Unlike many people, Dr. Mazin spends the whole year dedicated…
October 2022;15(5):10 By Rodney Campbell, ABR Communications Manager When the ABR Board of Governors announced in June 2020 that all Initial Certification exams were going remote, changes needed to be made to meet the challenge. The first exam under the new format was eight months away and a platform and infrastructure had to be built….
By Robert A. Pooley, PhD; Kalpana M. Kanal, PhD; and Matthew B. Podgorsak, PhD, ABR Trustees; and Geoffrey S. Ibbott, PhD, ABR Associate Executive Director for Medical Physics October 2022;15(5):7 ABR Volunteers The ABR depends on hundreds of volunteers to fulfill its mission. One key function of ABR medical physicist volunteers is to write physics-related…
October 2022;15(5):11 Before they appear in participants’ email inboxes every Monday, Online Longitudinal Assessment questions go through the wringer. The question writing process works the same for all 17 OLA volunteer committees. It includes extensive development and review by diplomates who are experts in their fields. Questions that are eventually offered to participants go through the…
By Robert M. Barr, MD, ABR President, and Cheri L. Canon, MD, ABR President-elect October 2022;15(5):4 The American Board of Radiology (ABR) is seeking qualified applicants to serve on its Board of Governors. Individual members of the Board of Governors typically have a broad range of experience in some combination of clinical practice, professional society…
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