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New data highlight 'critical' need to raise awareness about interventional radiology offerings

The specialty has seen significant growth in recent years, but a new analysis suggests that IR knowledge is still relatively limited outside the U.S.

New MRI tech assistant course addresses growing demand for remote scans

The training program is officially open for enrollment for students hoping to participate in remote scanning operations. 

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Experts highlight 'significant gaps' in interventional radiology education

New survey results highlight medical students’ awareness, or lack thereof, of interventional procedures available to women.

Hospital system offers dedicated CT training path to address staffing issues

Recently the system was struggling to keep some of its CT departments fully staffed, causing delays in care and burdensome workloads for staff. 

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Medical students want more competency-based learning opportunities in imaging

New survey results detail students’ support for changing up the educational formats available to them.

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Perplexity scores improve identification of fraudulent AI writings

Though numerous web-based tools have been created to flag published works that appear suspicious for AI authorship, the performances of these tools has been inconsistent thus far. 

COVID restrictions left many rad tech students 'very unprepared' for workforce

New survey data indicate that addressing the effect of technologists’ missed opportunities during their training may be a yearslong effort.

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Are misconceptions about radiology deterring medical students from the specialty?

New survey results delve deeper into what students are seeing in their future careers as physicians and how diagnostic imaging fits into the picture. 

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