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RSNA News - May 2005 RSNA Board of Directors Report
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R.Gilbert Jost, M.D. |
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In January the Board held its annual retreat during which discussions began on identifying a series of long-range goals to define a vision for the Society for 2010. Discussions and planning will continue throughout the year.
In undertaking these short and long-range planning efforts, the Board intends to ensure that RSNA maintains its commitment to providing excellence in education and resources for our members’ professional development; to anticipate and respond to the dramatic changes in medical imaging technology that will affect the practice of radiology; and to ensure the strength and continued growth of the organization into the next decade and beyond.
RSNA 2005
RSNA committees and the Board have reviewed survey results and comments from exhibit authors and attendees of RSNA 2004 and have responded with a series of changes for RSNA 2005.
A greater number of education exhibits will be in digital format this year. Education exhibits in five subspecialties—cardiac radiology, chest radiology, genitourinary radiology, neuroradiology and vascular/interventional radiology—will be electronic, while authors of other subspecialty exhibits will have a choice to present electronically or in the traditional backboard display. By 2007, all education exhibits will be electronic.
Plans are also under way to develop special standing kiosks and possibly large plasma screens to accommodate group review.
All scientific posters will be in digital format this year. Dedicated computers will be available for individuals and groups to review the materials.
The presentation system will be modified, making it more effective and efficient for the attendee and the presenter. In the past, authors of education exhibits who chose to participate in oral presentations were asked to be available each lunch hour Monday through Thursday. Beginning this year, participating education exhibit authors will be assigned a specific date and time. Authors of scientific posters will have the option of whether to make an oral presentation or simply be available for questions and discussion. The schedule will be available in the online Meeting Program, posted in the fall on rsna2005.rsna.org.
Additionally, RSNA will test combined presentations for education and science. Combined presentations of education exhibits and scientific posters will take place in topic-focused sessions during the lunch hour. The schedule of presentations will be available in the online Meeting Program.
Category 1 CME credit will be awarded to interested registrants attending author presentations. Registrants may self-claim category 2 CME credit while viewing education exhibits and scientific posters.
The Board has authorized the continuation of the policy permitting technical exhibit companies to conduct small drawings, raffles and lotteries and post the winning names at their exhibit areas. The Board has also approved allowing technical exhibitors to conduct non-CME satellite symposia in conjunction with the annual meeting.
RSNA 2006
Beginning with the 2006 annual meeting, RSNA will offer an educational track for radiologist assistants (R.A.s). RSNA will develop the program with the American Society of Radiologic Technologists. For more information about R.A.s, see the article Radiologist Assistants Prepare to Enter the Workforce.
MOC and SAMs
RSNA has been working with the American Board of Radiology and other organizations to ensure that members have the resources they need to meet maintenance of certification (MOC) requirements and to monitor their progress in meeting the requirements. Self-assessment modules (SAMs) in many different specialty areas will be available on RSNA.org beginning July 1. Completion of SAMs will be free to RSNA members and will be available to nonmembers for a modest fee. For more information on MOC and SAMs, see the article RSNA Develops New Resources to Help with MOC Requirements.
Publication Policy
Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a policy requesting that authors of scientific manuscripts based on research funded in whole or in part by NIH release their manuscripts to the public within 12 months of final publication in a journal. The manuscripts will be posted on the NIH’s PubMed Central Web site (www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov).
In response to the NIH policy, RSNA has decided to encourage, but not require, authors of articles in Radiology to wait the full 12 months. Pending an NIH policy decision, RSNA may establish a service for authors through which RSNA will send manuscripts to PubMed Central on behalf of the author if the author specifies the 12-month release date. In addition, the RSNA Board affirmed its January decision to provide free access to the journals after 12 months, rather than the current 24 months. For more information, see the article RSNA Responds to NIH Publication Policy.
RSNA Journals
Two new features are available for authors and subscribers to Radiology and RadioGraphics.
The online journals will provide an option to download medical images in PowerPoint format rather than in jpg or tif format. The journal citation and copyright will be embedded on the downloaded slides.
Corresponding authors of articles will now be notified by e-mail when their article has been published online, and will have the option to receive notification each time their article is cited by any of the 847 journals offered through HighWire Press.
In addition, the Board will continue the RSNA Visiting Editors Program for another three years. Radiology Editor Anthony V. Proto, M.D., and RadioGraphics Editor William W. Olmsted, M.D., have been visiting medical schools and other institutions in the United States to explain the peer-review process, how to submit a manuscript, reasons for manuscript rejection, types of appropriate submissions and problems seen in submitted manuscripts.
RSNA Research & Education Foundation
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RSNA will add $200,000 to the RSNA Research & Education Foundation for use in funding additional meritorious grants this year. The Foundation funds grants through the annual earnings on the corpus. The additional money will give the Foundation a greater opportunity to fund many of the worthy grant applications submitted each year.
Other Board Action
- RSNA is considering development of an image reference collection that will be included in the RSNA Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC), rsna.org/mirc
- The RSNA/ACR public information Web site, RadiologyInfo.org, will be translated into Spanish
- The host societies for the 2006 RSNA International Visiting Professor program will be the Lithuanian Association of Radiology, Chilean Society of Radiology, Malaysian College of Radiology, and Indian Radiological and Imaging Association
- A visiting professor will also be sent to Mexico each year to visit the annual meetings of Sociedad Mexicana de Radiología e Imagen and the Mexican Federation of Radiological Societies on an alternating basis
- RSNA will co-sponsor the World Congress on Interventional Oncology. The Congress will be held in locations including Europe, North America and Asia, beginning in 2006.
R. Gilbert Jost, M.D.
Chairman, 2005 RSNA Board of Directors
Note: In our continuing efforts to keep RSNA members informed, the chair of the RSNA Board of Directors will provide a brief report in RSNA News following each board meeting. The next RSNA Board Meeting is in June.
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