The Resource for all Your Teaching-Learning Needs in Radiology

Welcome to the ARRS Educator’s Toolkit for all educators who serve as course directors, moderators, and/or as faculty members for ARRS programs. This one-stop, comprehensive section for educators will provide current information regarding learning theory and techniques, resources, models, and samples of materials that can be used to plan, conduct, teach and evaluate educational activities.


Sample Tools

This station offers actual tools such as templates, samples, models and instruments that can be used in the planning, development and implementation of an educational activity. Included are samples that effectively represent a program or component that can be replicated.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST, DISCLOSURE AND BIAS  

ARRS Disclosure Policy, Definition of a Financial Relationship and Disclosure Statements

The ARRS Disclosure Policy: Since its inception in 1900, the ARRS has maintained a tradition of scientific integrity and objectivity in its educational activities. In order to preserve this integrity and objectivity, all individuals participating as planners, presenters, moderators and evaluators in an ARRS educational activity or an activity jointly sponsored by the ARRS must appropriately disclose any financial relationship with a commercial organization that may have an interest in the content of the educational activity.

ACCME Definition of a Financial Relationship: Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g. stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds) or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration benefit is received or expected. The ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.

Disclosure Statements for Slides

NO disclosure:  Neither I nor my immediate family members have a financial relationship with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect interest in the content.

DISCLOSURE:  I or my immediate family members have a financial relationship with a commercial organization that may have a direct or indirect interest in the content as follows:......

CREATING A CLINICIAN EDUATOR PORTFOLIO

For a career as a clinician educator, it is advisable to create a clinician educator portfolio representing your goals, philosophies, experiences as a teacher and/or mentor and evaluations from your presentations.  The following tools may be helpful in developing your portfolio:   

Clinician Educator Template

Teaching Philosophies

Clinician Educator Evaluation

This section will include the following:...coming soon

  • Planning an Educational Activity Checklist
  • Moderators Checklist/Course Director Checklist
  • Experiential Methodologies/Exercises/Quizzes
  • Selecting the Format (e.g., Lecture; Workshop)
  • Self-Assessments
  • Case-Based Approaches
  • Interesting Ways to Display Data
  • Evaluation Instruments
  • Using Technology, Multimedia and Online Modes
  • Designing an Individual Learning Plan