Faculty and education team members from the UW Department of Radiology traveled to Boston for the annual Association of University Radiologists (AUR) meeting in April. Faculty shared insights on educating future radiologists and celebrated Allison Grayev, MD’s inauguration as president of the Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology (AMSER)
The meeting offered educators the opportunity to collaborate and address challenges in educational radiology at all levels of training and see unique solutions that can be adapted into programs internationally. It was the last meeting before AUR was officially renamed the Association of Academic Radiology (AAR) to better represent the society’s mission.
At a reception on Wednesday, Dr. Grayev was inducted as the president of AMSER, an affinity group of the AAR. Dr. Grayev has served as a chair on the AMSER membership committee since 2017 and as vice president and program chair this past year.
During her term, Dr. Grayev hopes to lead the creation of a multi-society white paper emphasizing the importance of radiology in all medical school curricula. Her insight into how radiology can successfully be incorporated early in the medical school timeline comes from her involvement in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s ForWard Curriculum, where she created a new preclinical radiology curriculum.
“My goal is to show medical students that anyone can be a radiologist – if you can’t see it, you can’t be it. I find it to be particularly rewarding when more diverse applicants become interested in the field.”
Through multiple talks, Dr. Grayev shared her insight on medical student curriculum development, near-peer mentoring, evaluation, and optimizing academic grant applications. Other presenters from the department included Edward Lawrence, MD, PhD; Matthew Lee, MD; Anand Narayan, MD, PhD; Scott Reeder, MD, PhD; Jessica Robbins, MD; Andrew Ross, MD; Lonie Salkowski, MD, PhD; and Jonathan Swanson, MD, MBA. Medical students also participated in the conference through both presentations and poster exhibits.
Full presentation list of UW Department of Radiology Faculty at the 2024 Association of Academic Radiology Conference:
- Jessica Robbins, MD
- Getting Promoted as a Clinician Educator
- Designing the Academic Mission in an Era of Constraints
- PowerPitch Plenary (Moderator)
- The Value of Finding the Right Peer Group for Collaborative Scholarship
- Mid-Career Roundtable
- Allison Grayev, MD
- Medical Student Curriculum Development
- Developing Near-Peer Mentoring
- Medical Student Evaluation
- How to Optimize your Academic Grant Applications; What are Reviewers Looking For?
- Mentoring (Moderator)
- Matthew Lee, MD
- Radiology in Public Health
- Anand Narayan, MD, PhD
- Impact of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status on Access to Screening Services
- Lonie Salkowski, MD, PhD
- Trials and tribulations of implementing interpretive skills simulation system for resident breast imaging education
- Edward Lawrence, MD, PhD
- Climbing Toward the Peak: Purposeful Practice and Expertise Development in Radiology
- Scott Reeder, MD, PhD
- Resources to Pursue Research (Moderator)
- Jonathan Swanson, MD, MBA
- APDR Survey
- Ifeanyi Onuh (Medical Student)
- Diversity and Representation in AI-Generated Images of Radiologists
- Andrew Ross, MD
- Health Services Research: Why and How?