Digital Mammography Installed

The Department has implemented a direct digital mammography system allowing for enterprise-wide transmission of mammographic studies and instant retrieval of historical studies. Installation of digital mammography was accompanied by an extensive physical renovation of our very busy Women’s Center and an expansion of our professional faculty.  The conversion of mammography from film to digital media represented the last in the Department’s total changeover to digital imaging.

Learning Radiology Published as Elsevier Textbook

Dr. Herring’s award-winning radiology content website, LearningRadiology.com, was greatly expanded, adapted to book form and recently published as Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics by Elsevier/Mosby. The fundamental text adds new content and expands subject matters not touched upon on by the website.  The book also links to 50 interactive quizzes and tutorials that reinforce the text’s contents which are available on StudentConsult.com, Elsevier’s website for students, with purchase of the text. 

 

 

Voice Recognition Technology Speeds Reports to Clinicians

Albert Einstein’s Department of Radiology uses PowerScribe Voice Recognition technology to electronically transcribe reports the instant they are dictated. The system has greatly reduced report turnaround time to the clinician and allows radiology residents to “pre-dictate” preliminary reports pending review of the case and approval of the report by a faculty radiologist.

 

 

Filmless and Paperless - Totally PACS

The Department of Radiology implemented a Fuji Medical Systems enterprise-wide Picture Archiving and Storage System (PACS) several years ago and has been totally filmless and paperless in all modalities across all entities of the Einstein Network.  Reading Rooms were redesigned and renovated for the PACS architecture.  As part of the PACS project, the Hospital installed a high-speed, fiber-optic network to carry the data.  All studies and reports are available via the internet through a password-protected, web-based application.  

 

 

 

Einstein Radiologist Completes Term as President of the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society

 

William Herring, MD, FACR is the immediate past-president of the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society, this nation’s oldest local professional radiological society having celebrated its centennial in 2005.  The Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society brings together academic and private practice radiologists and residents from every training program in the Delaware Valley during the academic year through sponsoring lectures given by nationally recognized authorities in the field, dinners for members and residents and a spirited resident film-reading and trivia competition each year. The Society also provides assistance to numerous other subspecialty societies in the City such as the Mammography Society, the Angiography Club and the Orthopedic-Radiologic-Pathology Conference.

 

 

Department Digital Teaching File

The Department of Radiology has implemented Edactic, a nationally-recognized and widely-used digital content management system designed specifically for radiology as its Department-wide teaching file system. Edactic is the engine that drives such sites as the American College of Radiology’s Case-in-Point and AuntMinnie.com’s Case of the Day. Einstein teaching cases are available to our residents through password-protected access via the world wide web.  

 

 

Web-based Radiology Learning Resource Averages Almost Four Thousand Visitors a Day

Dr. Herring developed and maintains an award-winning, web-based learning resource at http://www.learningradiology.com. LearningRadiology is an educational site aimed at medical students and radiology residents-in-training containing lectures, lecture handouts, Cases of the Week, downloadable images, on-line quizzes, differential diagnosis lists and study flashcards primarily in the areas of chest, GI, cardiac, and bone radiology. The site contains a special section for medical student education. The site receives over a half million visitors every year who will access over 20 million pages of content this year. Feel free to visit the site.

 

 

Einstein Residents Accepted into Outstanding Fellowship Programs

Massachusetts General Hospital, Stanford University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Wake Forest University, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Emory University, the University of California at San Diego, Jefferson University Hospital, Duke University and the Hospital for Special Surgery are amongst the latest in a series of outstanding Fellowship programs into which our residents have been accepted. Einstein residents have always obtained premier caliber fellowships. Over 99% of our graduating residents, well-above the national average, have chosen to take a post-graduate fellowship over the last 15 years.

 

 

Einstein Radiology Residents Win National Awards

Christopher DeMauro, MD was only one of 80 radiology residents in the country to be awarded an RSNA/ARRS/AUR "Introduction to Research Award" this past year, the fifth consecutive year an Einstein resident was so honored.

 

 

Institutional Educational Stipend Available to Einstein Medical Center Residents and Fellows

Einstein Medical Center residents and fellows, PGY-2 or above, receive a $500 annual educational stipend. Residents and fellows may elect to use the stipend for educational meetings or conferences, medical textbooks, journals, specialty board preparation course, personal digital assistants, digital cameras, online education subscriptions, necessary medical equipment, board-certifying exam fees, USMLE exam fees and computer equipment.