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Notes of a Radiology Watcher

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Authors:
  1. Stephen R. Baker

    1. Department of Radiology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, USA

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  • Issues relating to residency education are addressed, focusing on initiatives that help trainees advance in capability and seniority within the training interval
  • Communication skills, foreign national health care models, quality issues and radiation doses are discussed with a worldwide audience in mind
  • The author's experiences and knowledge are shared to instruct radiologists on concerns such as radiology costs, demographic trends or the improvement of communication consultations

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Table of contents (79 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Early Residency: Preparation and Participation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Centralized Interviews for Prospective Radiology Residents

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 3-7

    3. A Critique of the Transitional Internship

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 9-12

    4. Looking Back at the Value of the Internship

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 13-14

    5. Radiology Residents: Internship Survey

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 15-17

    6. The Debt Crisis and Radiology

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 19-21

    7. Radiology Residency Positions: Growth, Distribution and California

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 23-25

    8. Radiology Resident Recruitment: Robustness in an Uncertain Environment

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 27-29

    9. Radiology Residencies: Disasters and Preparedness

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 31-33

  3. Late Residency, Fellowship and Just Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Reorganizing the Fourth Year: Curricular Organization—How Will the Fourth Year Be Redesigned?—Part I

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 37-40

    3. Reorganizing the Fourth Year: The Fourth Year After the Boards Change—How Should It Be Constructed?—Part II

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 41-43

    4. Reorganizing the Fourth Year: Reimagining the Fourth Year of Training in the of Training in the Era of Subspecialization—Part III

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 45-46

    5. Are We Losing the Certification Wars?

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 47-50

    6. The Trouble with Fellowships

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 51-54

    7. The Changing Board Exam Schedule in the U.S.: Will General Radiologists and Emergency Radiologists Become Synonymous?

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 55-57

    8. Bubble Trouble

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 59-61

    9. Regulation Without Representation

      • Stephen R. Baker
      Pages 63-65

  4. Radiology Elsewhere in the World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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About this book

The Radiology Department is a pivotal part of any acute and/or comprehensive health care facility. The radiologist can no longer just “hide out” there. Matters of imaging are often public concerns, larger in scope than just the scheduling and managing of a series of image tests. Rather radiology is expensive, often intrusive and in some areas earnestly and endlessly controversial. A radiologist must be attuned to these often confounding contingencies. Two recent developments in the monitoring of education of radiologists can be impacted by the content of this book. For trainees in Radiology, and for that matter, for all trainees in every medical specialty in the U.S., a new accreditation system (NAS) has been put into place under the impetus and aegis of the ACGME, the Accreditation Committee for Graduate Medical Education, the body responsible for graduate medical evaluation and oversight in the U.S. Among its many innovations, the NAS curriculum is concerned with knowledge acquired about social and economic issues pertinent to each specialty. It is also focused on improving communication skills and about enhancing quality and safety. In the elaboration of “milestones” for residency education in these issues are codified into focused initiatives that must be addressed by each trainee as he or she advances in capability and seniority within the training interval.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“Baker covers many areas of modern radiological practice including professional training, the role of the radiologist, malpractice, radiation dose and contemporary challenges. I particularly enjoyed the section on the radiology report. … This book is warmly recommended, to read at odd moments. We will benefit from his wisdom.” (Adrian Thomas, RAD Magazine, January, 2015)

“Notes of a Radiology Watcher by Prof. Stephen Baker is a collection of discursive yet precise essays on the state, solutions and impressions of the radiology profession. … Any radiologist will find this a readable and thought-provoking publication.” (Health Management, Vol. 14 (1), 2014)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Radiology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, USA

    Stephen R. Baker

About the author

Stephen R. Baker, M.D. 2660 Deer Path Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 Department of Radiology UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School 150 Bergen Street Newark NJ 07103 bakersr@umdnj.edu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Notes of a Radiology Watcher

  • Authors: Stephen R. Baker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01677-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01676-4Published: 08 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34707-3Published: 27 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01677-1Published: 12 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 332

  • Topics: Imaging / Radiology

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