 Registration information

This course is FREE to ESR members (If you need to renew or apply for ESR membership for 2021, please click here).

On-demand access will be available through the ESR’s Premium Educational Package after ECR 2022. The course will be run on the ESR Connect platform.

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 CME accreditation

No CME credits are available for this course.

ESOR/ESR Research Course

FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE | October 5, November 9, December 8, January 11, February 8, ECR, 2021/2022

Course information

Suitable for any ESR member interested in undertaking research, but with a particular focus on those early in their careers. This course aims to present some of the fundamental aspects of radiological research. The course consists of 5 online sessions of 60 min (40 min talks, 20 min Q&A) which will be led by luminaries in the field plus one on-site session at the ECR 2022, to which attendees of min. 4/5 of the online sessions will be specially invited.

Programme Online

Tuesday, October 5 13:30-14:30 CEST	SESSION 1: Why a career in radiological research? Moderator: Regina Beets-Tan, Amsterdam/Netherlands Speakers: Valérie Vilgrain, Clichy/France Luis Martí-Bonmati, Valencia/Spain Maxime Ronot, Paris/France Jaap Stoker, Amsterdam/Netherlands LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the attractions (and difficulties) of a career in radiological research? • What is radiological research: clinical/preclinical? • Differing roles in research: Must I always be chief investigator? • Is it different from other medical disciplines? Yes and no! • Research and clinical practice: friends or foes? • How to build/facilitate a research career: experience from a team leader • Interview of a young academic radiologist: What are the attractions and difficulties?
Tuesday, November 9 13:30-14:30 CET	SESSION 2: Research design Moderator: Valérie Vilgrain, Clichy/France Speaker: Patrick Bossuyt, Amsterdam/Netherlands LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Start with: what is the research question? • What type of study designs can be used to assess imaging tests and control for bias? • Why are research protocols fundamental? • What about ethics and research reporting guidelines? • What is an endpoint? • How to power my study? • Why is a statistician your most important collaborator?
Wednesday December 8 13:30-14:30 CET	SESSION 3: Research execution Moderator: Aad van der Lugt, Rotterdam/Netherlands Speaker: Steve Halligan, London/UK LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Do I need to get funding? If so, how can I get it? • Which collaborators do I need and how can I convince them to work with me? • How to facilitate recruiting subjects and accruing their data` • How is data quality assessed the best? • What does an analysis plan look like and which committees are needed for a clinical trial? • How to set up multicenter studies?
Tuesday January 11 13:30-14:30 CET	SESSION 4: Hot-topic research: Studies of machine learning for image analysis Moderator: Marc Dewey, Berlin/Germany Speaker: Julia Schnabel, Munich/Germany LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is medical deep learning? • What is radiomics? • Why will machine learning fundamentally change Radiology? • How to correctly assess and validate machine learning for imaging analysis? • How to become involved in machine learning research?
Tuesday February 8 13:30-14:30 CET	SESSION 5: Research dissemination Moderator: Jaap Stoker, Amsterdam/Netherlands Speaker: Marion Smits, Rotterdam/Netherlands LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How to prepare an abstract for a conference? • How to prepare a paper ? • How to get published in the ESR journals? • Why reporting guidelines are crucial? The EQUATOR network!
ECR 2022 TBC	SESSION 6: Research Networking – Connecting with other ESR Members on Research Projects Moderator: Michael Fuchsjäger, Graz/Austria Speakers: Regina Beets-Tan, Amsterdam/Netherlands Gabriel Krestin, Rotterdam/Netherlands Marc Dewey, Berlin/Germany Jaap Stoker, Amsterdam/Netherlands Aad van der Lugt, Rotterdam/Netherlands Steve Halligan, London/UK