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(Radiology. 2000;215:21.)
© RSNA, 2000

Special Communication

The Scientific Program: 20001

Theresa McLoud, MD, Chairman, Program Committee and Brian Lentle, MD, Liaison for Education

1 From the Radiological Society of North America, 820 Jorie Blvd, Oak Brook, IL 60523.

Index terms: Radiological Society of North America • Special Communications

Nothing endures but change
Heraclitus

At the start of this new era, the membership of the Radiological Society of North America will wish to be sure that the annual meeting scientific program remains vital and forward looking. The Board of Directors, having taken advice from many groups—including the FutuRad Committee (chaired by Dr. James Thrall) and the Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee (chaired by Dr. William Thompson)—has decided to introduce some changes into the program for the meeting in Chicago in 2000.

First, the schedule for the meeting will be organized in a consistent manner so that most of the common aspects of the meeting will take place at the same time each day throughout the week. This should make planning your meeting schedule easier. A near-uniform schedule is an idea whose time has come.

Second, the Board wishes to introduce the use of Scientific Posters as a means of communication between investigators and their colleagues. In many other contexts, Scientific Posters are an effective means of presenting an investigator's work. It is the intent of the Society to introduce them at the next meeting. Scientific Posters at RSNA 2000 will have their content abstracted in the printed program and they may, therefore, be referenced. The Board sees posters as a method of communication in certain specific contexts, such as:

1. When there are dense data sets and analyses to be presented that lend themselves to reflection but might suffer from the compression necessary for a verbal presentation.

2. When an investigator might benefit from a lively and personal interaction with researchers in the same field.

Thus, in 2000 there will be a choice between the following options for presenting your ideas and your work to the audience in Chicago:

Scientific Papers and Posters are completed research with a comprehensive report, a work-in-progress report of research under way concerning emerging ideas and techniques and containing initial yet defined results, or a brief pertinent report of a particular new aspect or understanding of clinical radiology.

Education Exhibits should be designed to teach or review radiologic signs, pathologic correlations, procedures, techniques, treatments and interventions or other aspects related to the practice of imaging.

The Board of Directors anticipates that these changes will provide more options for those educators and investigators who attend the annual meeting. The intention is not to imply that one format is better than others in any debate over the merits of papers compared with posters. Rather, it is to expand the range of options available to workers in the radiologic sciences seeking to decide how best to communicate their ideas.

Anyone who has spent time in what has until now been described as the Scientific Exhibits area will have quickly recognized that most exhibits are educational in intent. Most perform this function extremely well. However, it may not be optimal to include under this umbrella all exhibits-hence the distinction that will be made between Scientific Posters and Education Exhibits.

To ensure lively interaction between investigator and audience, it is planned to have a specific time for poster-presenters to be available to discuss their work during an expanded lunch break.

The year 2000, already regarded in the popular imagination as a year of destiny, will see a trial of these concepts. Their future, as in all that the Society does, will depend upon the reaction of our members. Without such innovations, just as with the introduction of the program centered on Integrating the Health Care Enterprise, there can be no growth. The future is one of great promise. Our challenge is to match that promise with judicious change.





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