Leadership Essentials 201: Preparing for Practice

September - December 2024

Register
September 1 - December 31, 2024

Backed by RLI’s steadfast commitment to empowering radiology’s future leaders, the RLI Leadership Essentials program provides impactful training for residents and fellows in the leadership and non-interpretive skills most relevant to early-career success.

Chaired by Ann Jay, MD and Ryan Peterson, MD, this comprehensive live and online program presents a focused curriculum on topics such as contracts and negotiations, rookie leadership, and personal finance.

From September – December 2024, two topics will be covered each month. Participants will be asked to view a 30–45 minute recorded lecture in advance of a live Q&A session with RLI faculty.

A live Q&A session will be held each month with two faculty. Dates will vary. Please see below for specific dates and times:

 

Live Q&A Dates

  • September: Wednesday, September 18, 2024, Noon ET
  • October: Wednesday, October 16, 2024, Noon ET
  • November: Wednesday, November 13, 2024, Noon ET
  • December: Wednesday, December 11, Noon ET




Watch this on-demand lecture, Bringing Awareness to Unconscious Bias, led by Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, FACR, to learn how to identify and acknowledge your own hidden biases, engage in practices to overcome them, and emerge as a leader in radiology

Monthly topic schedule:


From September – December 2024, two topics will be covered each month. Participants will view a pre-recorded lecture, additional resources, and then participate in a live, 30-minute Q&A session with faculty.  Please note that only one call will be held each month, facilitated by the two faculty. 

2024 Topics

 September

The Basics of Radiology Business

Leadership is about motivating and inspiring people to take organizations to the next level, but leaders must master practice basics (particularly navigating finances and legal issues) to create time and bandwidth to focus on truly transformational work. In this online module and ensuing live discussion session, learners will be introduced to basics of leadership and identify financial and legal pain points that could prevent them from succeeding in their broader more aspirational goals. Course attendees will be introduced to concepts and resources that will facilitate their lifelong learning as leaders in their future practices.

Tips and Tools for Building and Growing Your First Practice

This session will include personal insights and advice for the new radiologist as they prepare to join their future practice. Additionally, we will discuss tips and tools for building a practice once the radiologist is more acclimated to life after residency.

 

 
 October 

Personal Finance and Leadership: Making Better Decisions

People make two common mistakes when thinking about personal finance and leadership; they are both inaccessibly complex, and studying them can be pushed off until later. I disagree with both. Personal finance and leadership skills are based on basic tools that are easy to learn. We are going to explore these fundamental skills and build them into a framework for improved decision-making, which we can then use to approach both common and novel challenges. 

Negotiations: Basics Skills for Life and Leadership

We will discuss the concept of interest-driven negotiations and communication skills through examples and real-world application. We'll focus on four principles of successful negotiation and highlight how these skills translate into more effective leadership.

 
 November 

Health Care Disparities and Diversity in the Workplace

 

The Value of Being a Mentor: Building Your Own Skills and Finding a Higher Purpose

Most radiologists have had mentors by the time they enter practice. In this session, we will focus on the value of being a mentor to others. Mentoring relationships foster the development of the mentor’s own critical skills of listening, developing empathy, providing feedback and holding others accountable. Mentorship also provides benefits to the organization by building relationships, creating a culture of belonging and ensuring a pipeline of succession. Finally, mentoring promotes giving of oneself to a higher cause and allows the mentor to find a higher purpose. Mentoring is ultimately a win-win-win for the mentee, our departments and organizations and ultimately for the mentor.

 
 December 

Change Management

 

Servant Leadership

This presentation will explain what servant leadership is, how 10 characteristics lay the foundation for servant leadership and why servant leadership is important.  In this session, there will be some quotes and questions to challenge each of us to reflect on what aspects of leadership we value most and wish to emulate.



* Faculty and schedule subject to change

Course Fees for 2024

For Individuals:

Description

Rates

Resident

$75

ACR Member

$150

Nonmember

$300

 Medical Student $0

 

For Residency Programs:

If you are a residency program registering 1 – 9 residents and/or fellows, please use the registration link below:

Register Now for Residency Programs 

If you have any questions, please email mmcgraw@acr.org

Note: a 20% discount will be offered for 10 or more residents from one program


Course Chairs


Ann K. Jay, MD

Vice Chair of Education
Chief, Neuroradiology Division
Professor
Clinical Radiology and Otolaryngology
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital



Ryan B. Peterson, MD

Assistant Professor, Division of Neuroradiology
Associate Program Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency
Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine

Faculty

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Richard Duszak, MD, FACR, FRBMA

Professor and Chair
Department of Radiology
University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Kurt A. Schoppe, MD

Kurt Schoppe, MD

President
Radiology Associates of North Texas