Basic Neuroradiology – Chapter 4 – Reports are important

As a radiologist, your reports are your main way of representing yourself to your referring physicians, your supervisors, and your colleagues. It’s easy to let this effort slip and put out reports that are sloppy, have spelling errors, or generally don’t reflect us well, particularly in a rush. When this happens, it’s useful to think what it might be like to describe a report with spelling errors when you are testifying about a case.

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 3 – History is important

Having appropriate history is necessary to render the best interpretation of a study. It helps if that history is accurate. Mistakes can be propagated by bad history, and it can severely hamper you as a radiologist. When necessary, take the extra effort to get a good history.

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 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 (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

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.