Body and Pelvic MR

CME

Earn up to 35 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 4 SAM Credits

Course Overview

This is a three-day intensive practical course on abdominal and pelvic MR image interpretation that will be focused on the most common current indications for abdominal and pelvic MR – imaging of the liver, pancreas, pelvis and the kidneys. It is aimed to help a range of radiologists, from the general radiology practitioner to the moderately advanced MRI expert. This course is designed as an extension to the didactic lecture-based annual ACR Body MRI Update meeting. In contrast to passive lectures, participants will be provided their own PACS workstation from which actual patient abdominal MRI studies will be viewed. A formalized reporting structure will be used for the attendee to analyze their viewing of the findings. Additionally these findings can be reviewed and discussed with the teaching faculty. Course material for this course can be found here. (registration required)

Schedule & Registration

Member Fee*: $3,500.00

Course Director

Diego Martin, MD, PhD
Chief of Radiology
University of Arizona

Program Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Interpret at least 100 patient cases on a PACS workstation

2. List the protocol expertise for acquiring a comprehensive examination within a 20 minute scan time

3. Describe the rationale for the acquisition methods: which acquisition shows specific aspects of particular pathologies

4. Identify and develop expertise in the diagnostic evaluation of a range of liver tumors and diffuse liver disease, gall bladder and diseases of the bile ducts; pancreatic malignancies and diffuse pancreatic disease; renal malignancies; and abdominal vascular, retroperitoneal and peritoneal disease; and pathologies of male and female pelvis.

Attendees who complete a minimum of 100 cases will be awarded a Certificate of Proficiency stating they meet the Maintenance of Competence case requirement as specified in the ACR Practice Guidelines for the Performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the abdomen and liver.

* Members-in-Training fee is 50% off member rate. Attendees who register 3 months in advance will receive a $250 discount (Member-In-Training: $125 discount). Late registrations received within two weeks of the course will be charged an additional $500 (Member-In-Training: additional $250).