Earlier this year, I moderated a Panel on Education and Academics at the Radiology Education Foundation (REF) Leadership Summit held at Mumbai. We discussed various aspects of education, ranging from curriculum and exams, mentorship, accreditation, and improving the quality of teaching and research. One major takeaway was voiced by Sumer Sethi, the founder of DAMS …
Continue reading Radiology Residency and Examination Pattern: It is Time for a Reset
No one can forget Steve Jobs masterful launch of the iPhone. “Today, we're introducing three revolutionary products” he said – “a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device.” Jobs then repeated the three products a few times: “An iPod, a phone, an internet communicator…”. And then he …
Radiology residents in India are currently in a lucky phase. There is a boom in online education, which ensures that they will learn well irrespective of the quality of their local radiology faculty. There are multiple quality fellowships available for them to hone their subspecialty skills if interested. And the world is their oyster if …
Continue reading Radiology career in USA vs. UK: A guide to settling abroad
We recently completed the 500th webinar of the Café Roentgen REF series (we started the webinars much before Covid struck, on 29th May 2019). It felt simply wonderful; it felt as if I was seeing my kid graduating with top honors! It also set me thinking about the enormous impact of webinars in general in …
Continue reading Can Webinars do to Radiology what Satellite TV did to Cricket?
I recently heard an amazing podcast on the Indian education system, and one of the things the speaker said stuck with me. The Indian education system is more of a ‘sorting’ system than a ‘teaching’ system. Let me elaborate. Essentially, education serves two purposes. The first is to ensure wholesome individual development by imparting knowledge, …
Continue reading Education in India: The Drona Model vs Top Gun
Structured reporting became extensively used worldwide over the last decade, as it improved reporting clarity and patient care. And yet, its acceptance in India was not as widespread and rapid as it ought to have been. Even BIRADS, PIRADS and LIRADS were not often used still. Some radiologists found it unnecessary as their free text …
Continue reading What CORADS and the CT Covid Score teach us
Dr Argha Chatterjee from Tata Medical Center recently took an excellent series of sessions on basic biostatistics for the Cafe Roentgen REF webinar series (you can view the webinars here). Imagine you seeing a liver lesion with peripheral washout sign. If the referring physician asks you whether the lesion is an adenocarcinoma or HCC, should …
This is not a post on radiology. It is a post on something much more basic; on understanding what goes through a patient's mind and how can we humanize medicine and the doctor-patient relationship. And before you start changing the tab, let me assure you there is no philosophical exposition ahead (I don't have that …
Continue reading The Pen is as mighty as the Pill: Humanities in Medicine
Earlier this year, Tata Memorial Hospital held a very frank and interesting positive discussion on cut practice in medicine, and how a young doctor can establish a successful practice without resorting to giving cuts. Dr Anirudh Malpani, IVF Specialist and a prominent physician and entrepreneur, shared his views on the Cut Practice and how to …
As the interests of radiology residents and consultants in AI keeps increasing, there has been a lot of demand to explain the nuances of AI to enhance knowledge. Radiologists looking at and decoding AI need to figure out the key roles they are likely to play in this journey. This article will explain the various …
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