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What Program Directors Think III: Results of the 2014/2015 Annual Surveys of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology (APDR).

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The Association of Program Directors in Radiology regularly surveys its members regarding issues of importance to support radiology residency programs and their directors. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is an observational cross-sectional study using two Web-based surveys posed to the Association of Program Directors in Radiology membership in the fall of 2014 (49 items) and the spring of 2015 (46 items) on the subjects of importance to the members, including the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education Milestones, the Non-Interpretative Skills Curriculum, the American Board of Radiology Core Examination, the effect of the new resident testing and program accreditation paradigms on training outcomes, the 2015 Residency Match, the Interventional Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology (IR/DR) Residency, and Program Director (PD)/Program Coordinator resources. RESULTS Responses were collected electronically, results were tallied using SurveyMonkey software, and qualitative responses were tabulated or summarized as comments. Findings were reported during the 63rd annual meeting of the Association of University Radiologists. The maximal response rate was 33% in the fall of 2014 and 36% in the spring of 2015. CONCLUSIONS PDs believed that the radiology Milestones, now largely implemented, did not affect overall resident evaluation, was not reflective of resident experience, and actually made evaluation of residents more difficult. PDs also felt that although the American Board of Radiology oral examination had been a better test for clinical practice preparedness, their new residents knew at least as much as before. There was little evidence of recall reemergence. The radiology training community saw a drop in residency applicant quality as demonstrated by the United States Medical Licensing Examination scores and clinical rotation grades. Because the new IR/DR Residency positions were to be funded at the expense of the traditional DR positions, the majority of PDs expected a negative effect of the impending IR/DR match on their DR recruitment. PDs were in favor of a unified clinical radiology curriculum similar to the Radiological Society of North America online physics modules.

Developing a Job Description for a Vice Chair of Education in Radiology: The ADVICER Template.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The newly formed Alliance of Directors and Vice Chairs of Education in Radiology (ADVICER), a group within the Alliance for Clinician Educators in Radiology, identified an acute need for a generic job description template for Vice Chairs of Education in Radiology, a role that is being developed in many academic Departments of Radiology. Eighty-three percent of current members who responded to a survey had no detailed job description, and over half had no job description at all. Having a comprehensive and detailed job description is vital to developing this key position. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using the results of a survey sent to ADVICER members and seven Education Vice Chair job descriptions provided by members, the authors developed a detailed job description encompassing all potential elements of this position. RESULTS Only 17% of survey respondents had a detailed job description. The role of an Education Vice Chair varies significantly between institutions in its scope and level of responsibilities. The resultant generic job description that was devised is intended to provide a template that would be modified by the candidate or the Department Chair. It is unlikely that any one individual would perform all the described activities. CONCLUSIONS ADVICER has developed a comprehensive, flexible job description for Vice Chair of Education in Radiology that can be adapted by institutions as appropriate. It can be downloaded from http://aur.org/ADVICER/.

Erratum to “What Program Directors Think” III: Results of the 2014/2015 Annual Surveys of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology (APDR): [Acad Radiol 2016; 23:861–869]

From the Department of Radiology, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, 100 Woods Road, Valhalla, NY 10595 (A.R.); Department of Radiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana (D.E.H.); Department of Radiology, University of Florida—College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida (T.L.H.M.); Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois (J.S.S.); Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (A.M.P.); Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.E.S.); Department of Radiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana (J.B.N.); Department of Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.R.). Address correspondence to: A.R. e-mail: ar250@columbia.edu