Aug. 7, 2003

For questions and responses contact:
Kelly Foster

ACR Office of Council and Chapter Services

1891 Preston White Drive
Reston VA  20191
Phone: 800.227.5463, ext. 4917
Email: kellyf@acr.org

ACR Web site: www.acr.org

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

                                                - Vince Lombardi

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE – Scroll down for the complete articles.

·         Let’s Try Something New to Help One Another

·         Please Respond: A Question from Connecticut

·         Now is the Time to Review Draft ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards for the 2004 AMCLC

·         News From the Chapters

           Texas Works with Other Chapters to Review Meeting            Logistics

Let’s Try Something New to Help One Another

Recently staff in the ACR Office of Council and Chapter Services received requests from two chapters for assistance in collecting information from other chapters.  We want to help facilitate ACR chapters learning from one another.  Beginning with this issue, we will from time to time include questions asking for your response.  We will then publish the collected data and share it with other ACR chapter leaders.  Please see below for this week’s question from the Connecticut Radiological Society.  Are you curious about how other chapters are doing things?  Forward your questions to chapters@acr.org.

Please Respond: A Question from Connecticut

The Connecticut Radiological Society would like to know the following:

Does your chapter have director/officer liability insurance?

Please respond by reply email to chapters@acr.org by Aug. 14, 2003.  We will publish the collected data in the Aug. 21 issue of this newsletter. 

Now is the Time to Review Draft ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards for the 2004 AMCLC

It is now more important then ever for you and your chapter members to participate in the review and comment process of draft ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards.  In passing a resolution during the 2003 ACR Annual Meeting and Leadership Conference, the Council believes the place to propose changes to ACR Practice Guidelines and Standards is in this review process and not during the Council meeting.  Therefore, it is imperative that you and your chapter members participate in the review process over the next few months.  Please read below for more details about how to participate in this process.

ACR Members can review and comment on the Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards on the ACR Web site.  These drafts will be presented for adoption at the 2004 Annual Meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference.  The field review process started in August and will continue through November.  Each month, four to six drafts will be posted on the ACR Web site for member review.  When the last drafts are posted in October/November, ACR members will have had the opportunity to comment on all the drafts.  Titles of the drafts that will be submitted for renewal, but are not going through the field review process, also will be posted on the ACR Web site. 

How to Review the Draft ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards

·        Go to the ACR Web site (www.acr.org)

·        Double-click on the “Members Only” icon on the front page.

·        On the next page click on the “Draft Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards for Review and Comment” icon on the left-hand side of the page.

·        You will need to provide your ACR username and password in order to access the documents.  Contact ACR Membership at either membership@acr.org or 800.347.7748 if you do not have this information.

Members with questions or suggestions for additional revisions on those documents can e-mail standards@acr.org.

News From the Chapters

Texas Works with Other Chapters to Review Meeting Logistics

Recently Renita Fonseca, executive director of the Texas Radiological Society, contacted several other ACR chapters and asked them to provide information about their annual meetings.  The purpose of the survey was to help the TRS leadership as they consider making changes to their annual meeting.  Renita noted, “It’s nice to do this type of thing to get ideas on what others do, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel each time you want to do something new or different.”

The TRS contacted several ACR chapters who are similar in membership size via email and asked respondents to provide information about meeting attendance, costs, revenue, events associated with the meeting, etc.  Afterwards, all respondents received a compilation of the collected information.  The TRS leadership will review and discuss the information at an upcoming meeting.