Dispatches December 2024

Maximize Your Leadership Impact
Fifth Annual ACR Medical Student Symposium
Registration Is Open for ACR 2025 and the PP&TS Virtual Meeting
2025 Hillman Fellowship Application Now Open
Application Window Extended for 2025 JACR Trainee Editorial Board
Review a New Career Center Resource
Shape the Future of Radiology at the 2025 ACR-RMBA Practice Leadership Forum
ACR Launches AII Quality Registry

Maximize Your Leadership Impact

If you’re a practicing radiologist looking to maximize your impact in your practice, join us for the 2025 RLI Leadership Accelerator. This 12-week leadership course offers a comprehensive blended learning experience that equips you with essential leadership skills for effective leading, nurturing and negotiating.

As a participant, you’ll:

Join live 90-minute virtual sessions on Thursday evenings from 7–8:30pm ET, featuring faculty presentations and interactive Q&A.
Master critical skills, including operations, negotiations, and finances.
Understand how to position yourself as a dynamic and effective leader.
Learn along with a cohort of your peers from world-class experts in the field.

This focused leadership course will give you the tools and know-how to build your executive skills and drive change from the reading room to the boardroom. The first session kicks off Jan. 16, so register today.

Fifth Annual ACR Medical Student Symposium

Join the ACR Medical Student Section’s Medical Student Symposium, a one-day virtual experience organized by medical students on Jan. 25, 2025. Throughout the day, you will explore the field of radiology and hear from radiologists from different specialties, a program director panel and much more. There will also be a case competition with prizes, and students are encouraged to submit presentations that showcase unique radiology cases related to the “Rarities.”

Registration is Open for ACR 2025 and the PP&TS Virtual Meeting

The ACR is excited to announce that registration for the Practice Parameters & Technical Standards (PP&TS) Virtual Meeting and the ACR 2025 Annual Meeting is open.

PP&TS Virtual Meeting — April 1 and 3

Reference committee hearings on 2025 Practice Parameters & Technical Standards will be held virtually, April 1 and 3, from 7–9:30 pm ET. This meeting is the last opportunity to have input into the final drafts that will be considered by the Council during the ACR Annual Meeting. Learn more and register by March 14.

ACR 2025

The ACR Annual Meeting will take place at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., May 3–7. We look forward to seeing you in person, but virtual options exist for non-voting members.

During the meeting, you can take part in:
Council business meetings
Council elections
Section-specific programming
Caucus meetings
ACR Convocation
Educational programming

2025 Hillman Fellowship Application Now Open

The Bruce J. Hillman, MD, Fellowship in Scholarly Publishing will be accepting applications from Dec. 1, 2024–Feb. 28, 2025. The fellowship offers experience in medical journalism, editing and publishing for radiologists interested in this field.

Recipients will work with the JACR^® editor-in-chief and deputy editor and will complete related projects, as well as receive a one-year appointment to the editorial board along with an invitation to the editorial retreat. Additionally, recipients will travel to New York City to meet with Elsevier, the JACR’s publisher. This trip will be planned around the fellow’s availability, with the ACR and Elsevier reimbursing travel expenses.

Apply today.

Application Window Extended for 2025 JACR Trainee Editorial Board

The 2025 JACR^® Trainee Editorial Board applications are now being accepted through Dec. 31, 2024. This editorial board will work with the JACR editor-in-chief and deputy editor and will get hands-on experience in medical journalism, editing and publishing. The trainees will participate in a variety of events, such as small-group lectures, mentored peer review and more that relate to scholarly publishing. To be eligible to apply, applicants must be a resident or fellow in a radiology specialty, have an ACR membership and provide evidence of interest in medical journalism, specifically in the JACR. This can be shown through published articles, participating in research and having served as a reviewer for medical journals.

Review a New Career Center Resource

The ACR Career Center is your resource when navigating the record quantity of radiology employment opportunities. Review the new Featured Radiology Jobs Guide to connect with employers who are participating in this digital resource guide to learn of their current jobs, company culture and available benefits. Create a free job seeker account to upload your CV, save jobs of interest and access career advancing resources.

Contact the Career Center with any questions.

Shape the Future of Radiology at the 2025 ACR-RBMA Practice Leadership Forum

Join radiology practice leaders for the 2025 ACR-RBMA Practice Leadership Forum, which will focus on igniting growth and strategizing for success. Taking place in Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 24–26, 2025, this is the only industry event where practice administrators and physician leaders unite and have the unique opportunity to envision, strategize and collaborate as one cohesive team.

Participants can expect to:

Dive deep into the role of AI in enhancing radiologist efficiency, diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes.
Gain new insights and strategies for identifying and addressing cybersecurity risks.
Walk away with confidence in their ability to tackle current workforce challenges.

Also, don’t miss the chance to hear from ACR CEO, Dana H. Smetherman, MD, MPH, MBA, FACR, FSBI, as she discusses the impact of market segments in the field of radiology.

Learn more about special team pricing.

ACR Launches AI Quality Registry

In November, the ACR unveiled Assess-AI, designed to track and monitor ongoing performance of an array of imaging AI algorithms in clinical settings. This unique AI quality registry is the newest addition to the ACR National Radiology Data Registry. Assess-AI collects patient information such as demographics and modality/exam meta data and monitors the results that the AI detects. The goal is to give radiology facilities analytics on clinical AI and how it operates in practices over time, comparing results against national performance benchmarks from other sites that are also using the same or similar AI products.

Participating in Assess-AI gives radiology facilities access to:

Monitoring the stability of algorithm inputs over time, including imaging equipment, protocols and software version.
Continuous oversight of AI result concordance/discordance with radiology reports.
Aggregation of observations into reports and dashboards to share with a facility’s AI governance team, empowering further action as needed.

Author

Alexander Utano associate editor, ACR Press