Author: Brent Weinberg, MD

Basic Neuroradiology – Chapter 2 – Follow up on your patients

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Basic Neuroradiology – Chapter 2 – Follow up on your patients

It’s critically important to learn from the studies you read by following up on the outcomes. This is how you continually improve as a radiologist. Your referring colleagues will have direct access to the patients and better history than you. In this way, they can get very good at imaging as well. You, as a radiologist, need to offer value to them, and to make that happen you need to continually improve.

The best way to facilitate this is to keep a list of patients that you need to follow-up on. It can take weeks to months to get useful follow-up, so develop a system by which you can remember when to follow up.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in basic concepts of neuroradiology.

Basic Neuroradiology – Chapter 1 – Read a ton

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Basic Neuroradiology – Chapter 1 – Read a ton (of studies)

When beginning radiology, you will invariably hear people tell you that you need to read a lot of books. This is frequently described in terms of how much time you should be spending reading. Is it 1 hour per day? 2 hours? Thirty minutes? Who knows?

You should be reading, but you need to target your reading so you can use your time appropriately. Time spent reading more studies will probably be higher yield than reading general books, and if you can do targeted reading about specific cases that you saw while on service, your retention will be much higher. While it’s important to read, make sure that effort is appropriately targeted.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in basic concepts of neuroradiology.

Basic Neuroradiology – Introduction

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Basic Neuroradiology – Introduction

This lecture covers some key concepts for beginner radiologists, particularly medical students and junior residents. Some are specific to neuroradiology while others apply across the field. This is designed as a first introduction to radiology, with some correlation to neuroradiology cases.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in basic concepts of neuroradiology.

 

Basic Spine – Chapter 5

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Basic Spine – Chapter 5 – Case Review

This is the final chapter in a review of basic spine imaging. This chapter reviews some of the key concepts using a few unknown cases.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in spine imaging or may see patients with spine disease.

Basic Spine – Chapter 4

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Basic Spine – Chapter 4 – Non-Degenerative disease

This is the fourth chapter in a review of basic spine imaging. This chapter covers non-degenerative disease, such as tumors, inflammatory disease, and other spine abnormalities. This chapter uses a location based approach to narrow differential diagnoses based on whether abnormalities are intramedullary, extramedullary but intradural, and extradural.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in spine imaging or may see patients with spine disease.

Basic Spine – Chapter 3

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Basic Spine – Chapter 3 – Degenerative disease

This is the third chapter in a review of basic spine imaging. This chapter covers the range of spine degenerative disease, including terminology, grading of stenosis, and other concepts.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in spine imaging or may see patients with spine disease.

Basic Spine – Chapter 2

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Basic Spine – Chapter 2 – Principles and Terminology

This is the second chapter in a review of basic spine imaging. This chapter covers general principles of spine imaging as well as terminology which is frequently encountered in spine imaging.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in spine imaging or may see patients with spine disease.

Basic Spine – Chapter 1

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Basic Spine – Chapter 1 – Introduction and Anatomy

This is the introduction chapter to a review of basic spine imaging. This chapter covers anatomy and other basic concepts.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in spine imaging or may see patients with spine disease.

Basic Spine

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Basic Spine – Introductory lecture

This lecture covers some key concepts for beginner radiologists when interpreting studies of the spine.

The level of this lecture is appropriate for medical students, junior residents, and trainees in other specialties who have an interest in spine imaging or may see patients with spine disease. More senior residents may find some concepts useful as a review and potentially benefit from the cases in chapter 5.

The lecture is divided into chapters as follows:

  • Chapter 1 – Introduction and spine anatomy
  • Chapter 2 – General principles and terminology
  • Chapter 3 – Spine Degenerative disease
  • Chapter 4 – Spine Non-degenerative disease, a location based approach
  • Chapter 5 – Case based review

While designed as one continuous lecture, individual components may be useful for general review.

Board Review 1 – Full lecture

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Board Review 1 – Full lecture

This lecture is a board review lecture geared towards preparation for the radiology resident ABR core exam, although similar material is used for the ABR certifying exam general and neuroradiology sections.

The format of this lecture is case-based. Each case consists of a series of images followed by 1 or 2 questions. The first question is usually to name the diagnosis, while the second is a multiple choice question to test deeper understanding of the specific condition. Try to get the diagnosis before you see the second questions.

The first 5 cases of this review are a case based review of neurodegenerative disorders and dementia. Cases 6-20 are general neuroradiology board review. Enjoy.