In a rapidly changing radiology landscape, the College is responding to ensure you succeed in every stage of your career journey.
Amy L. Kotsenas, MD, FACR
FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF CHANCELLORS
Alan H. Matsumoto, MD, MA, FACR
By Amy L. Kotsenas, MD, FACR, Chair of the Commission on Membership and Communications
Guest Columnist
As chair of the Commission on Membership and Communications, I would like to share the value of your membership in the ACR. The College is committed to providing innovative programs and timely resources that allow you to deliver exceptional care to your patients, thrive in every phase of your career and have a voice in the future of medicine.
ACR is your community, your professional home at every stage of your career. The College is a group of passionate and like-minded peers where everyone in the house of Radiology — including diagnostic and interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, medical physicists and others close to the specialty — can feel included, develop a strong sense of belonging and ensure their voices are heard. Indeed, when we use the terms Radiology and Radiologists, we are using the “big R,” inclusive of all our peers mentioned above. Throughout the entire arc of your career from our Medical Student Section (MSS) to our Senior and/or Retired Section, ACR is the organization that has your back.
We are focused on the issues that matter to you. Your ACR dues allow the College volunteers and staff to successfully advocate for fair reimbursement for the services you and your practices provide to patients, to influence governmental decision-makers to ensure safe and effective implementation of tools like AI and to support your state chapters in fighting scope of practice challenges[LP3.1].
In our rapidly changing world, ACR is responding with innovative programs and benefits to help you succeed.
In our rapidly changing world, ACR is responding with innovative programs and benefits to help you succeed. The College is working to expand radiologists’ role at the forefront of AI by launching ARCH-AI as the first national quality recognition program for AI in radiology facilities adhering to best practices and governance in the use of AI for image interpretation. Additionally, ACR created the Assess-AI quality registry, which is built on the same platform as other ACR registry programs. Assess-AI allows practices to continuously monitor the AI tools in use in their practices, reduce the risk of AI and optimize its performance. Finally, the College has invited leaders at the FDA to the 2026 ACR Annual Meeting in May. Our collective input will help inform the FDA’s ongoing efforts to strengthen oversight of emerging AI technologies, including generative AI-enabled devices.
The College is unique among radiology professional organizations as the only one with a representative, democratic governance structure that gives you, our members, a voice in policy decisions. Through representation at your ACR chapter and other radiology organizations to which you belong, you have a voice at the ACR Council where policy decisions are made and ACR leaders are elected. I encourage all of you to get involved in your chapter and engage in discussions at the grassroots level that impact the future of our College and profession.
We continue to see increases in imaging utilization and many practices are finding it difficult to recruit new colleagues to meet their demands. The ACR Career Center, the largest platform for Radiologists to find and post positions, has long been a valuable resource to connect members seeking jobs with those groups that are hiring. A new Career Center Steering Committee, led by Shannon G. Farmakis, MD, is working to improve and modernize the ACR Career Center. These enhancements make it easier for both job seekers and employers to find a better match in their search.
The ACR provides thousands of volunteer opportunities across 200 commissions, committees and task forces at the national level and with 54 local chapters. Typical volunteer service lasts for one year and can be renewed for up to four years. If that time commitment is too much for your schedule, smaller volunteer opportunities exist that may be as short as a one-time, less than one-hour commitment. We want you to be successful and able to connect with opportunities that align with your interests and availability. You can explore opportunities to get involved on the ACR Volunteer webpage.
We welcome our young members-in-training, including medical students, residents and fellows. During training, membership dues are completely covered by ACR members established in practice so there is no cost for trainees to belong. Membership dues are subsidized for members in the first four years post-training, with a gradual advancement of dues while you establish your practice. Membership is vital for the health and longevity of the ACR and the profession of Radiology, and the College recognizes the financial stresses encumbered by trainees and those Radiologists (big R) who have recently completed their training. We also include focused programming at the ACR Annual Meeting and throughout the year for our members in the MSS, RFS and YPS.
The College is a great source of educational opportunities. Members have access to over 90 hours of free CME through programs like ACR Case-in-Point®, with additional CME opportunities throughout the year. Recently, the ACR launched a new Advocacy Curriculum to introduce new and existing members to the concept of advocacy and what it is. This exciting new program will also provide an advocacy how-to guide resource so our members can effectively advocate for themselves, their practices and our profession.
The College does not do these things for you; we do them with you. We need you, our members, to be successful. These are exciting, rapidly changing times and we are ready to meet the challenges we face together and strive to support each other in the process.
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