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This category is open to residents and fellows in-training who are physicians in an approved radiology residency or fellowship in the United States or Canada, or registered in a formal educational program at a Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).

The category is also open to medical and therapy physicists who are registered in a formal educational program in medical physics in the United States or Canada.

Encourage your program director to upload your information and your peers’ to the ACR Trainee Update database so you can access the programs and webinars available to members.

This category is free.

Yes. If you are going to fellow in-training, your free membership status continues throughout your training.

Six months after you complete your training, you'll automatically become a full member of ACR in the appropriate category. ACR prorates your membership for the first four years after you’ve secured a paid position. That first year is only $77.

Medical students in a U.S. or Canadian approved program who have an interest in becoming a diagnostic radiologist, interventional radiologist, radiation oncologist, nuclear medicine physician or medical physicist are eligible for medical student member-in-training membership.

Medical students are offered complimentary membership.

Medical student status normally terminates within six months following completion of training. Individuals who go directly from medical school to an approved residency may continue as members-in-training until they complete their residency and/or fellowship programs.

Yes, provided that:

You’re a physician or medical physicist practicing the specialty of radiology, radiation oncology or medical physics outside the United States and Canada who is certified in radiology or medical physics and is in good ethical standing in your country.

As an international member, you can be appointed to commissions and committees and task forces but cannot hold elective office or be a member of the ACR Board of Chancellors.

Find the schedule of dues here.

International members-in-training are physicians and medical physicists who have never been ACR members in practice, occupy approved residency or fellowship programs or are registered in a formal educational program in medical physics outside the United States and Canada, and are in good ethical standing in their respective countries.

Find the schedule of dues here.

International member-in-training status normally terminates within six months following completion of the period of training but may be considered for transition to membership in the appropriate class.

Associate membership eligibility includes:

• Physicians engaged in the practice of radiology who have completed an approved residency program in radiology but have not been certified by any of the following:
• The American Board of Radiology.
• The American Osteopathic Board of Radiology.
• The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
• The Collège des médecins du Québec.
• Physicians engaged in nuclear medicine but not certified by a specialty board that is a member of the American Board of Medical Specialties or its Canadian equivalent.
• Medical physicists engaged in the practice of medical physics and otherwise eligible for membership in the College who have not been certified by the American Board of Radiology or its equivalent.

Associate members have the right to be appointed to ACR commissions and committees but cannot hold elective office or be a member of the ACR Board of Chancellors.

Find the schedule of dues here.