ACR Hub for Medical Educators

One medical school hosting a one-day event or 10–40 students anticipated in attendance. Valued at $150.

ACR provides:

• Postcards/giveaways for up to 40 students.
• Prizes valued up to $50.
• Event promotion through ACR social media.
• Access to existing online ACR content and presentations upon request.

School provides to ACR:

• List of registrants with contact information.
• Agenda/program schedule.
• Marketing and promotional information.

Two to three medical schools partnering for a one-day event or 40–75 students anticipated in attendance. Valued at $500.

ACR provides:

• Postcards/giveaways for up to 75 students.
• Prizes valued up to $100.
• Event promotion through ACR social media.
• Food and beverage allowance ($275).
• Access to existing online ACR content and presentations upon request.

School provides to ACR:

• List of registrants with contact information.
• Agenda/program schedule.
• 30-minute ACR spotlight session (based on member volunteer availability).
• Marketing and promotional information.

Four or more medical schools partnering for a one-day event or 75–150 students anticipated in attendance. Valued at $750.

ACR provides:

• Postcards/giveaways for up to 150 students.
• Prizes valued up to $100.
• Event promotion through ACR social media.
• Food and beverage allowance ($575).
• Access to existing online ACR content and presentations upon request.

School provides to ACR:

• List of registrants with contact information.
• Agenda/program schedule.
• 30-minute ACR spotlight session (based on member volunteer availability).
• Marketing and promotional information.

If you are interested in being a preceptor for the PIER radiology summer internship, you may want to ask for support from your chairman and obtain administrative support to help with logistics.

Administrative support would be able to contact the student with all credentialing details such as HR paperwork, communication and check on transportation needs to and from the hospital. This person can set up requirements such as compliance training, etc.

If you have a medical student coordinator in your department, that person could help the student integrate into the medical student lecture and reading room rotation schedule. Since this is meant to be an internship that exposes the student to radiology, it would be good if they could spend time in subspecialty reading rooms or with a clinical colleague. We intend to provide the student with a diverse clinical radiology experience so they can see all aspects of radiology.

• Assign a desk with computer and access to PACS.
• Designate a person to teach student access to PACS and EMR.
• Establish rules for communication with the preceptor.
• Meet with your institution’s diversity office to see if they have activities for the student participate in.

• Create a calendar with lectures, reading room schedules, etc. that the intern can both access and edit.
• Schedule deadlines (abstract submission, day of service*, etc.) on the calendar. Plan when data collection and analysis should be complete as well as submission day for poster printing.
• Plan for any down time. For example, if you see a great case in the reading room, perhaps the student can submit an ACR Case in Point.

• Initiate IRB compliance training as soon as possible. The student will need an ID and access to the network prior to this training.
• Schedule focused phone meetings with your intern at least 1–2 months prior to their arrival. Provide reading material if there is an ongoing project you plan on using. If the intern is starting a new project, use the first meeting to establish areas of interest and brainstorm research projects, and the second meeting to finalize plans and complete IRB. The study should be designed prior to student arrival. Ideally, the IRB would be submitted 1.5–2 months prior to the start date.
• Enlist your department biostatistician early on for help with study design and data analysis.
• Have a schedule for deliverables for the research project so that the project’s abstract, data acquisition and analysis, and poster printing can be done on time.