In a cooperative endeavor by the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Academy of Radiology Research, the American College of Radiology, the Radiological Society of North America and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a consensus conference was held to tackle the issue of enhancing research in academic radiology departments.
The committee came up with 11 important strategies. Among those strategy recommendations:
Radiologists who participated in the meeting included leaders of top-funded research departments, directors of funded research programs and others with relevant expertise.
"The article is about the collective opinions of representative leaders developed together in consensus format. The hope for the consensus information is that chairs and faculty will pursue the recommendations relevant to their own departments," said Philip O. Anderson, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, and lead author of the article.
The results of the conference appear in the August 2004 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
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