ARRS Books with Educational Credit

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Meet your certification requirements using ARRS Books with Educational Credit. These in-depth and cost-effective publications are designed to enhance your knowledge and skills while providing CME and Self-Assessment credit.

19.5 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit discusses the use of ultrasound to diagnose abdominal, vascular, obstetric, gynecologic, and musculoskeletal diseases and disorders, as well as pitfalls in neck, chest, abdomen, and spine disorders in pediatric ultrasound.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants should be able to develop differential diagnoses for ultrasound findings; recognize the imaging and clinical features that allow for refinement of differential diagnosis, allowing for a more specific diagnosis; recognize some commonly encountered imaging artifacts in ultrasound and describe why they occur and the techniques to avoid them; recognize new ultrasound technologies and describe their use in clinical scenarios; outline management decisions affecting a variety of commonly encountered clinical scenarios; describe strategies that assist in improving diagnosis in adult and pediatric radiology

15 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit is designed to provide clear understanding of the major types of DECT equipment and protocols to effectively utilize this modality in their everyday practice. For those practitioners not yet using this powerful tool, this book is an excellent introduction to ways this technology can help mitigate risks and costs of additional diagnostic testing.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants should be able to summarize the basics of Dual-Energy CT (DECT) image acquisition, post processing, and issues pertaining to streamlined workflow among the various equipment vendors; recognize applications of DECT that impact patient care in the outpatient, inpatient, and emergency department settings; recognize how to optimize imaging protocols and improve image interpretation for neuroimaging, cardiothoracic imaging, abdominal imaging, pediatric imaging, oncologic imaging, and musculoskeletal imaging; apply DECT for problem solving in common imaging conundrums and acquire an increased awareness of DECT pitfalls and challenges.

 

This book offers 15 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

20 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit will provide a holistic view of vascular imaging across subspecialty silos such as neuroradiology, cardiothoracic imaging, abdominal imaging, as well as pediatric and interventional radiology.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants should be able to discuss the relative strengths of key imaging modalities (ultrasound, CT, MRI, angiography) and appropriately apply each in the diagnosis of vascular disease; adapt the latest best practices to optimize the quality of vascular imaging for each modality in their own practices; recognize manifestations of traumatic and nontraumatic vascular injury, atherosclerotic disease, chronic thromboembolism, mesenteric ischemia, vasculitis, and congenital vascular abnormalities; apply vascular imaging for surgical and interventional planning, including TAVR, prostatic embolization, surgical free flaps, and aortic aneurysm; describe the latest imaging innovations (including artificial intelligence, spectral CT, 4D flow, and contrast enhanced ultrasound) and utilize each to further improve diagnosis of vascular disease.

This book offers 20 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

20 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit will discuss how to implement practice-based strategies for turning errors into opportunities in both acute and routine imaging settings.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants should be able to formulate a process for peer learning; discuss the potential and limitations of artificial intelligence for enhancing radiologist performance; identify how the appropriate use of standardized reporting systems such as LI-RADS® and TI-RADS™ can improve performance and reduce errors; recognize common misses and misdiagnoses in each discipline in radiology; describe strategies that assist in improving diagnosis in adult and pediatric radiology.

This book offers 20 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

20 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit will focus exclusively on how to avoid misdiagnosis in a wide spectrum of pitfalls, variants, and pseudolesions according to current evidence based appropriateness criteria.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants should be able to identify and characterize relevant incidental findings; list differential diagnoses, when necessary, and suggest the best management strategy; apply practice-based strategies for optimizing patient outcomes; communicate recommendations for follow up appropriately.

This book offers 20 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

20 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit will provide a clinically-focused update on the most current imaging guidelines, terminology, and disease classifications.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants should be able to identify current white papers, ACR Appropriateness Criteria™, and other national and international guidelines that encourage best practices across multiple subspecialties; describe critical imaging findings in adult and pediatric patients with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary, and musculoskeletal system; describe and implement LI-RADS™ for reporting of liver lesions in patients with cirrhosis; list updated concepts in prostate MRI, including PI-RADS™ and MRI-targeted biopsy.

This book offers 20 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

20 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit will address practical, real life clinical scenarios, and will provide tips and tricks to optimize study performance and interpretation, to ultimately enhance care provisions by adding value to patient management.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants will possess the knowledge and skills to perform and interpret body MRI at a high level across a range of applications; describe and implement LI-RADS for reporting of liver lesions in patients with cirrhosis; discuss updated concepts in prostate MRI, including PI-RADS and MRI targeted biopsy; discuss the indications for adding MRI to ultrasound in gynecologic disease; and describe critical MRI findings in adult and pediatric patients with diseases of the liver, pancreas, biliary system, gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary, and musculoskeletal system.

This book offers 20 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

19.5 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit will provide a current reference for radiologists in emergency imaging and help direct an appropriate line of care by describing emergency findings and potential pitfalls along with alternative and differential diagnoses.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants will possess the knowledge and skills to discuss the current status of emergency imaging in a broad spectrum of topics; evaluate current protocols for imaging the body in emergency situations with multiple imaging modalities; identify typical and atypical emergency presentations of multiple disorders; and recognize potential pitfalls in the performance and interpretation of emergency imaging.

This book offers 19.5 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

25 CME and Self-Assessment Credits

This book with credit covers the field of oncologic imaging, across a wide range of subspecialties.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the book, participants will possess the knowledge and skills to diagnose and stage important cancers; give a differential diagnosis, when necessary, and suggest the best management strategy; apply practice-based strategies for optimizing patient outcomes; describe systems barriers to improving diagnoses and patient outcomes; articulate differential diagnoses and suggest the best management strategy.

This book offers 25 CME and SA-CME Credits following completion of an online test.

 

The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education activities for physicians.

Imaging in the ED: A Practical Update of Emergency Radiology: The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 19.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 19.5 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-SME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Body MRI: How to Provide Value-Based Care: 
The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 20 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-SME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

A Practical and Current Approach for Managing Incidental Findings:
 The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 20 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-SME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Oncologic Imaging: From Diagnosis to Cure: The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 25 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-SME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Subspecialist Tips for the Multispecialist: The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 20 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-CME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pitfalls, Variants, and Pseudolesions: How to Avoid Misdiagnosis: The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 20 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-CME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Strategies to Overcome the Most Common Misses in Clinical Practice: The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 20 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-CME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Multimodality Vascular Imaging: From Head to Toe: The ARRS designates this enduring material for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and 20 American Board of Radiology, MOC Part II, Self-Assessment CME (SA-CME) credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.