Notes of a Radiology Watcher Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 Edition
Author(s): Stephen R. Baker (Author)
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 27 Aug. 2016
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Language: English
Print length: 346 pages
ISBN-10: 3319347071
ISBN-13: 9783319347073
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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)
From the Back Cover
Written by an expert in the field, Notes of a Radiology Watcher Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 Edition presents a compilation of essays given by the author, which run from clinical issues to practical matters, from residency concerns to ruminations about the future of radiology and about comparisons between U.S. radiology and diagnostic imaging practice abroad.
Notes of a Radiology Watcher aims to show the reader how radiology is being transformed from its customary focus of the last 40 years to meet the disparate challenges of competing influences and an uncertain future. Considerations on the elaboration of ‘milestones’ for residency education are examined, as well as the social and economic issues that are codified into focused initiatives that must be addressed by each trainee as they advance in capability and seniority within the training interval. With the expanse and reorganization schemes of training of the Accreditation Committee for the Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), this book is of interest to radiologists worldwide as it discusses both the U.S. models of training as well as foreign national health models, new initiatives and quality issues.
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
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