Posts Tagged ‘Education’

ajnr: changes for 2010

Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 163 views

AJNR is constantly changing, many times thanks to suggestions made by our readers and others by decisions taken by myself and the senior editors.  These are some of the changes that will happen this year:
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AJNR Tops list of “most read” in mdlinx.com

Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 233 views

This week, the most read article in www.mdlinx.com comes from AJNR.  This is very nice review article written by our colleagues from Boston Children’s Hospital.  What I find very satisfying is that this article has [...]

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educational presentation: DWI of brain abscesses

Posted on December 4th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 415 views

abscesses dwi
We are back from RSNA and it is time to post a new educational activity in our blog.  This presentation, by one of our previous neuroradiology fellows, addresses the typical and atypical findings and [...]

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Changing structure of the ABR exams and the effect on Neuroradiology

Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Robert Zimmerman, New York Prebysterian Hospital | 392 views

Neuroradiology after 2012 – The effect of new structure of the ABR certifying examination structure on neuroradiology training of residents and fellows and the future of Neuroradiology subspecialty certification  (CAQ).
The American Board of Radiology is [...]

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educational presentation: congenital and acquired hearing loss.

Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 378 views

Imaging Cong & Acq Hearing Loss (FILEminimizer)
Here is another educational presentation.  It was shown at a previous ASNR meeting and authored by our Neuroradiology fellows of the time.  It deals with the imaging aspects of [...]

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New AJNR Feature: Weekly Question and Poll

Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 372 views

Starting Monday, August 31, when you visit AJNR.ORG you will find our new weekly activity: question and poll.  Every Monday we will post a new question and our visitors can vote on an answer.  These [...]

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Educational presentation: Imaging of Acute Torticollis

Posted on August 17th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 376 views

Imaging in Acute Torticollis (NXPowerLite)
As promised, here is another educational exhibit that deals with the imaging of a common clinical problem: torticollis.  As with the previous one, this was already presented at an ASNR meeting. [...]

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More on e-only publications

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 433 views

On March 23th the University of Michigan Press announced that it will go all digital (no more paper publications!).  They will not reduce their press budget but use these resources in a more efficient way.  [...]

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MIT goes Open Access

Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 419 views

In one of my previous editorials I commented on Harvard’s open access (OA) initiative (AJNR 2008; 29: 617-18). Basically, regardless of publication venue, all investigators working for that institution have to deposit a copy of [...]

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Another one bites the dust: JCI says goodbye to Open Access.

Posted on March 8th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 727 views

One of my previous editorials (AJNR 2008; 29: 1805) dealt with the issue of open access (OA) and its influence on medical journals. Although complete OA is laudable, it is a difficult economic model to [...]

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