ESOR Courses for EDiR on Musculoskeletal Radiology

In 2017, ESOR is continuing to organise foundation courses to prepare/assist those entering examinations for the European Diploma in Radiology (EDiR). These courses may also be attended by board-certified radiologists, wishing to update their knowledge in a specific area. A series of courses is organised at the ESR Learning Centre in Vienna/Austria, in November 2017. The format will include nine courses, each one dealing with a specific organ/system-oriented theme.

The teaching concept will include 20-minute lectures, immediately followed by 40-minute case-based reviews on six topics. The teaching/learning objectives for each of the topics will be strictly adhered to the European Training Curriculum. A self-assessment test with multiple choice questions for each lecture will round-off the exercise.

The ESOR Courses for EDiR are intended to help prospective candidates to prepare for the European Diploma in Radiology examination. Attendance does not guarantee acceptance to take the examination or success in the examination.

Learning Objectives:

• to become familiar with the most common disorders and the imaging algorithm for diagnosing the painful hips in young adults and the painful postoperative knee
• to know the earliest MRI findings of spinal infection and to differentiate this from inflammation and degeneration
• to understand how to plan and supervise an imaging approach for the soft tissue and bone tumours
• to understand the normal bone marrow and the marrow disorders using an updated MRI protocol