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Meeting at 8/10/2000
MMS Headquarters in Waltham
Meeting called to order at 7pm
Items:
1. ACR Meeting
- Fellowship application process:
- one option — have a designated time period for interviews, then a following period for offers
- There should be a universal application!
- ERAS?
- Push the application time from third year to fourth year
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2. RF&S Website
- Reading for residents page:
- Recommendations can be submitted
- Links to good sites can be submitted
- Encouraged! (You’ll receive stock options of MRS…)
- Emedicine.com:
- will pay you (~$500) to write about a topic in Radiology
- good opportunity, many topics available!
- CHORUS.rad.mcw.edu:
- good site for condensed info on topics
- The Resident Forum on the website:
- Is it needed?
- Will decide after one year
- How to communicate with each other between meetings:
- Option: Chris Wald will get E-mail address for one person in each program. That person will then forward the email to everyone in that program using internal distribution lists
- The Links Page:
- Contains only most frequently used sites.
- There is a link to a page which has a huge list of rads sites
- Recommendations for improvements:
- Make private practices aware of our site so they can post job opportunities. (they would need to keep it updated with expiration dates)
- Ditto for moonlighting openings.
- Info on a Radiologist’s salary, lifestyle, job opportunity
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3. Planning the year
- Having a meeting to discuss:
- Teleradiology Forum
- Plan for November 9 Thursday 7pm
- Spring Forum:
- Business aspects of Radiology was very successful last year, very popular amongst residents from all programs during recent dinner at Harvard Club
- Plan for early April 2001
- Dr. Scholz, GI Radiologists (Lahey Clinic)
- offers a one day comprehesive alimentary tract radiology board review course at Lahey for free.
- 3rd+4th year residents would have priority access to limited number of available spots (about 50) for a period of two weeks.
- Thereafter free registration first-come-first serve
- Plan the next social event for winter
- Next meeting Monday October 30
- Chris Wald will investigate possibility for residents to attend the MRS executive meetings on a rotation basis (one at a time)
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Meeting adjourned at 8:45pm
Minutes respectfully submitted by David Rusch, MD
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