Goals for residentsTo become an author or coauthor on one research project presented at a national meeting or become an author or coauthor of a publication. - The ACGME has created milestones for residents.
For the "Scholarly Activity" milestone (under Practice Based Learning and Improvement), to reach: - Level 4 = 1 presentation/publication. - Level 5 = Completing an IRB and at least 2 projects.
- R1 residents should complete 2 tasks: the CITI modules on ethics/informed consent and conflict of interest (COI).
These are required minimum to join already-existing IRB projects; more forms are required to start your own IRB.
- Note on Quality Research:
R1s are encouraged to start/join/do their own QI project, which satisfies 3+ requirements:
- AGME milestone #1: Scholarly Activity - AGME milestone #2: Quality Improvement - QI presentation: required internal presentation, scheduled per Amion/Chiefs
- Bonus: One external quality conference is covered by CIR annually, up to $3000 (Please see Educational Funds for details).
Most quality projects and case reports do not need an IRB, if you would like to publish your findings, you can retroactively apply for an IRB waiver. Please note that there are suggested guidelines for quality related research, SQUIRE
- Mount Sinai has a point system.
Residents can accrue points for PMID (PubMed ID) publications and presentations at national meetings. Non PMID publications (e.g. Case-in-Point) help us meet our faculty point count, but not do not contribute to our resident point count.
Goals for the attendings: Mount Sinai GME asks that we have at least 50% of faculty with at least 2 points each academic year. Faculty get points for PMID publications, non PMID publications, and presentations at national meetings.
How to Start a Project 101This information is in the order you should approach things!!! Authorship --> Study/Statistics Design --> IRB DISCUSS AUTHORSHIP BEFORE YOU START ANY PROJECT!
Authorship: Not the same as simply having participated in data collection or "helping" with the study.
Typically the person with the biggest intellectual contribution to the project (especially the conception/writing of the manuscript) should be the first author.
Authorship CAN CHANGE, but make sure your mentor(s)/faculty members on the project agree with the change. Possible reasons for change: - Contribution to workload for poster/manuscript has changed dramatically, for whichever reason (type of study, personal/family, work duties, waning interest, etc.)
- Significant personnel change (new talents needed, graduation, mentor leaving, new mentor, etc.)
- Funding change (loss of grant, new grant, etc.)
Also see the 4 criteria from ICMJE, which many top journals use:
Note: The subsequent sections may not apply if you are doing an educational exhibit. (discuss with your mentor)
Study design/Statistics: - THINK ABOUT YOUR DATA IN ADVANCE!!! Especially study population, what types of data will be meaningful, etc. (Don't get to the end, and realize your data is meaningless)
- What will your final abstract / poster / manuscript look like?
- Make a draft / outline of the study design.
- Consider asking for study design help from:
- Consider using REDCaps to securely store your data.
- once your study is approved, email: redcap-support@mssm.edu to get access for yourself & study colleagues
- For statistical analysis:
- Our department has SPSS available in the West radiology library, computer closest to the window.
IRB: You should determine what level you need - IRB or IRB waiver. It can take 1-4 weeks to get an IRB waiver, or months/a year to get a full IRB, so start ASAP! (Any study >1 patient requires paperwork! Either a full IRB or an IRB waiver application). - In general prospective projects will need an IRB approval while retrospective projects need an IRB waiver.
- Any project that needs an IRB approval (not a waiver) has to be signed off by either Dr. Kamath or Kagen prior to submission to the IRB.
- 3-5 total steps (yes, for both IRB and IRB waivers):
- CITI modules:
- Conflict of interest
- https://sinaicentral.mountsinai.org/
- COI > Annual Report of Outside Relationships (every year)
- Project-specific FCOI (per project)
- (Yes you will need to do an ADDITIONAL FCOI form for *each* IRB)
- https://peak.mountsinai.org
- Complete the PEAK training course:
- Online Courses > Functional > Research box > "Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research"
- Branch point: Are you joining or writing/leading an IRB or IRB waiver?
- Joining an IRB or IRB waiver:
- (Step 3) Upload your CV onto Ideate. You're done after this.
- Writing/leading an IRB or IRB waiver:
- (Steps 3, 4, and 5) Applications need to be made through:
For more help: - The official Mt. Sinai folks have free walk-ins:
- IR research coordinator: Aaron Greenberg
- Available on site at West to hep with resident research related questions/projects
- He can be at cell pretty much any time or M-F 8:30-4:30 at 212-636-8705. You can also email him at aaron.greenberg@mountsinai.org.
- His office is located on 4b-08 - it says "interventional fellows" on the door but he uses it.
- Diagnostic radiology research coordinator: Lena Marra
- Located at main Mount Sinai Hospital.
- Email is best: lena.marra@mountsinai.org
- Or M-F 9am-5pm at: 212-241-9369
Final StepsAfter you've conducted your study & done analysis... present your abstract at a conference, or submit it for a manuscript!
Abstracts / Posters / Electronic Exhibits / Oral Presentations Please review any abstract with Dr. Kamath prior to submitting to a meeting. These can be reviewed/discussed at Research meetings. This includes potential submissions to SLW and/or Mt. Sinai research fairs. A presentation at RSNA would probably be the best thing for your fellowship apps. Meeting prestige mirrors journal impact factor as noted below.
If your abstract is accepted, please notify all coauthours and Dr. Kamath so that we can update our residency website. We would like a dry run of these presentations presented at a research meeting.
- It is OK to submit these to multiple meetings, e.g. ASNR and RSNA. For all the work you put in, you might as well submit to more than one meeting. Please note that you will be sponsored to go to the first meeting, not any subsequent meetings to re-present the same data, but this does not apply to new/different projects. It is not uncommon to see a designated poster person from one institution putting up or taking down all posters from that institution. Usually in the submission process, you are asked if this poster has been presented anywhere else. Just check yes and hope for the best.
Manuscript (!!!) - Ideally a poster/presentation should be converted into a publication. If you present at a meeting the journal of the society sponsoring the meeting typically claims"right of first refusal" for your manuscript. e.g. if you present at ASNR, you should submit to AJNR. If AJNR rejects your manuscript, you are free to submit it to another journal. (For AUR/Academic Radiology, this policy seems only to apply to those that receive the "Ethics and Professionalism Grant".) Many fellow applicants have made presentations. One should aspire to have a publication on your CV.
- For those considering academic careers, please note that original research publications are key. Some promotion committees won't even consider presentations at national meetings. Case reports do not really count toward academic promotion. These can take some time to write. You should spend your time figuring out ways to publish original research. In addition publication in a journal with a high Impact factor is considered more prestigious and valuable for promotion.
- The impact factors below are in some cases self reported by the journal in question!
| Radiology | RSNA | 6.339 | | AJNR | ASNR | 3.67 | | AJR | ARRS | 2.897 | | Radiographics |
| 2.791 | | Neuroradiology |
| 2.7 | | Academic Radiology | AUR | 1.914 | | J Dig Imaging |
| 1.1 |
- Medical illustrator: Jill Gregory: http://www.jillkgregory.com/. Associated w/ Mount Sinai as of 2018
Research deadlinesThis is only a small selection of the top Radiology conferences; there are certainly more you can find! General Radiology -RSNA https://www.rsna.org/annual-meeting Abstracts due April 15, 2019 Conference Day: December 1-6, 2019 Location: Chicago, Illinois
-AUR Annual Meeting https://www.aur.org/AnnualMeeting/ Theme: Systems Thinking and Population Health in Radiology Abstract application opens mid-Oct 2019 Conference Day: April 21-24, 2020 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
-Mt. Sinai IME Education Research Day https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/ime/programs/education-research-day Abstract application opens Dec 2019 Presentation day TBD sometime in April/June 2020
Mammography Society of Breast Imaging https://www.sbi-online.org/ Abstract Due: November Conference Day: April 16-19, 2020 Location: Denver, Colorado
Neuroradiology - ASNR https://www.asnr.org/ Abstract opens: Sept/Oct Conference Day: May 30-June 04, 2020 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
ASSR
http://theassr.org/ Travel grant (up to $2000): http://theassr.org/news/wfnrs-grant-apply/ Registration: approx $345 Conference Day: February 12-16, 2020 Location: Dana Point, CA
Chest -Society of Thoracic Radiology https://thoracicrad.org/ Abstracts due: October 2019 Conference Day: March 8-11, 2020 Location: Indian Wells/Palm Springs, CA
Radiology organizationsConsider joining some Radiology organizations for networking & news. - Membership fee for residents: $640 annually (required)
- Find more information about the core exam registration and schedule on their website
The American College of Radiology is the principal organization of radiologists, radiation oncologists, and clinical medical physicists in the United States, with more than 30,000 members. It is responsible for the accreditation of individual practices, radiology departments, guidelines on radiation safety, writing the Manual on Contrast, has extensive ACR teaching files for residents, and most importantly publishes the ACR appropriateness criteria, which are the guide to indications and interpretation of all radiological studies. The American Institute for Radiologic Pathology runs a four-week Radiologic Pathologic Correlation Course in AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. It is now a program of the American College of Radiology (ACR), it was formerly held at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology's Walter Reed facility. All residents attend this course during their training and receive a stipend for the expenses. The Association of University Radiologists encourages excellence in radiological laboratory and clinical investigation, teaching and clinical practice, stimulates interest in academic radiology education as a medical career, advances radiology as a medical science, and represents academic radiology. AUR has an annual meeting and is a great opportunity to get research work presented. - Membership fee for residents: $60
The Radiological Society of North America holds an annual meeting in Chicago around Thanksgiving, late November to early December. 40,000 medical imaging professionals are members of RSNA, including radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and allied scientists. RSNA hosts the world's largest annual radiology meeting, publishes two highly respected peer-reviewed journals (Radiology and Radiographics), offers opportunities to earn CME, and provides research and education grants to young investigators. - Membership fee for residents: FREE
American Roentgen Ray Society, founded in 1900, is the first and oldest radiology society in the United States and publishes the American Journal of Roentgenology. - Membership fee for residents: FREE
The New York Roentgen Ray Society was founded in April 1912 to address the scientific and clinical practice concerns of physicians specializing in the new field of radiology. Now, it runs a local meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue (corner of 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue), on one Monday each month from fall through spring every year. Our incentive in attending is the resident quiz with prize money!!! - Membership fee for residents: $75 (paid by department)
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