Continuing Medical Education
The Department of Radiology regularly schedules continuing medical education activities throughout the year. These programs offer a variety of learning opportunities for residents, fellows, faculty and private radiologists.
Summer Continuing Educational Activity
This educational meeting is held on the South Carolina coast. Previous sites include Kiawah Island, Myrtle Beach, and Hilton Head Island. This course presents innovations in traditional disciplines with emphasis on newer imaging techniques. The meeting is held annually in June.
Multidisciplinary Conferences
Convening at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, these conferences emphasize the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
The Fall Multidisciplinary Conference focuses on breast cancer in women. The faculty is made up of specialists in radiology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, pathology, plastic surgery, and surgical oncology. Conference registrants learn to identify the available choices and select the most appropriate approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease in a variety of clinical situations. Director: Rita Freimanis, M.D.
The Summer Multidisciplinary Conference features osteoporosis and covers epidemiology (incidence, risk factors, screening methods, and prevention), bone mass measurement and fracture risk, scanning with dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, and treatment options. Specialties represented by the faculty include comparative medicine, endocrinology, family medicine, gynecology, orthopedic surgery, radiology, and rheumatology. Director: Leon Lenchik, M.D.
General Minifellowships
Both informal and formal minifellowships can be scheduled throughout the year for radiologists who want either a general update/review or a more intensive experience in a radiology subspecialty. Programs can be tailored to the individual radiologist's preferences in any of the following areas:
- Body CT/Ultrasound
- Chest Radiology
- Gastrointestinal Radiology
- Pediatric Radiology
- Neuroradiology
- Nuclear Medicine
- MR Imaging
- General Diagnostic Radiology
These courses are held at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and provide a variety of instructional approaches, including:
- Daily film-reading sessions with the radiology faculty
- Radiology literature from the extensive resources in the Division of Radiologic Sciences' Learning Center
- Study films on film and CD-ROM from the departmental collection and the ACR teaching files.
- Library of lectures by our faculty recorded on videotape
Continuing Education Credits
All activities are sponsored under the auspices of the Division of Continuing Education, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, which arranges for Category 1 continuing education credit whenever possible.
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