MRI of the abdomen

Description

This workshop on abdominal MRI will focus on the typical MRI appearance of lesions of the parenchymal abdominal organs, with special focus on detailed MR anatomy and the role of examination technique. You will learn how to detect and characterize clinically relevant lesions and do an appropriate differential diagnosis.

A unique combination of weekly online lectures, hands-on reporting of more than 40 selected real abdominal MRI cases accompanied by focused self-study and mentor feed-back will help you to improve your MRI diagnostic skills.

This interactive course will give you direct feedback on all your reported cases including case-statistics and annotated image solutions. During the weekly online meeting with the mentor further case discussion takes place and you have the possibility to ask questions and focus on your learning needs.

At the end of our 4-week online fellow ship you will feel more confident doing your routine abdominal MRI reporting.

The maximum number of participants on the Online Mini Fellowship will be 20 fellows.

***Effort: 5-6 hour per week

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WEEK 1
- 28/10/2019 5pm CET // Kick off session (20 min)
- 28/10/2019 - 01/10/2019 // MRI of the liver I Benign lesions - Reporting on selected cases (4 hour learning time)
- 04/11/2019 5pm CET // Live webinar. Lecture + Case discussion (90-120 min webinar)

WEEK 2
- 04/11/2019 - 08/11/2019 // MRI of the liver II Malignant lesions - Reporting on selected cases (4 hour learning time)
- 11/11/2019 5pm CET // Live webinar. Lecture + Case discussion (90-120 min webinar)

WEEK3
- 11/11/2019 - 15/11/2019 // MRI of the Pancreas - Reporting on selected cases (4 hour learning time)
- 18/11/2019 5pm CET // Live webinar. Lecture + Case discussion (90-120 min webinar)

WEEK 4
- 18/11/2019 - 22/11/2019 // MRI of the Kidneys - Reporting on selected cases (4 hour learning time)
- 25/11/2019 5pm CET // Live webinar. Lecture + Case discussion + wrap up (120 min webinar)

The reading of the the cases is self managed with no mentoring support. The trainees will be doing all the reporting on the online modules which will only be made available to start reporting on the reporting start date.

All the webinars and interactive sessions will be held at 5pm CET.

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Learning objectives

• Understand the role of MRI examination technique in the proper evaluation of abdominal parenchymal organs
• Learn more about the frequent and the unusual MR findings of pathologic abdominal conditions
• Be aware of the significance of MRI imaging in the differential diagnosis of abdominal diseases

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Level

Level II - General radiologist
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Technical requirements

The training platform runs entirely in the browser but the online PACS places a considerable load on the hardware and internet connection when viewing and loading cases.

• * Tested with Safari on iPad 9.7 (2017), should also work on Android with Chrome. User interface not optimized for smaller screens. Large cases (more than 600 images) are not able to be opened on tablet or mobile devices due to memory constraints.
• ** Firefox, Edge and Safari also work but might not provide an equally smooth experience. Internet Explorer is not supported.