For the year 2008 the General Assembly held in Chicago approved, within the budget presented by the directive board, a U$ 15.000 item for the PPV. Furthermore, eight more programs were requested and approved in full. The assigned countries were: Argentina. Honduras, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Colombia, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Currently, seven out of a total of fourteen programs are completely defined. Only one event is still pending and we are working very hard on it.

We would like to stress the policy applied for the selection of professors. Ideally, the selected ones are those who have not participated the previous year. However, the availability of the professors as well as the selection criteria according to specialties and requested topics on each country make it difficult to put together the programs.

The CIR would also like to make a point of the large amount of Professors participating of its activities this year. This is mainly due to the Congress of Belo Horizonte, taking place from October 9th to 11th. In this event we will be represented by 28 radiologists from different countries that have proven to be up to the challenge given their capabilities and qualities as professionals.

A total of 44 Professors from different countries participate in the academic activities sponsored by the CIR. We hereby share this information with you so you may be able to access all the news about our programs.

We would like to invite you to visit the official web sites of the CIR www.cir-radiologia.org and of the Interamerican Congress of Radiology www.congressocbr.com.br so that you keep updated about these Continuos Education activities.

Rodrigo Restrepo
CIR Scientific Committee Coordinator

Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the prestigious international humanitarian organization, has addressed NOT i CIR requiring the publicizing of their need to count with a Radiologist.

To collaborate on the support of different programs such as: Ultrasound in hospitals where MSF leads Gynecology programs, Obstetrics and Surgery; Radiology for TB and HIV programs; Radiology for surgical programs focused on Orthopedics.

All interested professionals may contact: Cara Kosack, Diagnostic Network, Medecins Sans Frontieres, PHD, 4th floor, Plantage Middenlaan 14, 1018 DD Ámsterdam, The Neederlands. Cara.KOSACK@toronto.msf.org

We invite all the NOT i CIR readers to see directly from this space the monthly informative newsletter: RSNA News which the Radiological Society of North America has kindly offered us.

You will be able to access the most recent issue of the newsletter, as well as the index for previous issues both in the website (html) and PDF file.

International Radiology Quality Network Announcement

An international Performance Metrics and Indicators Project

The International Radiology Quality Network (IRQN) announces a worldwide benchmarking initiative on the turn around times (TATs) for radiology reports.

The IRQN is a network of organizations. Its members include: American College of Radiology, Asian and Oceanian Society in Radiology, European Society of Radiology, Inter-American College of Radiology, International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technologists, International Society of Radiology, Japan Radiological Society, Radiological Society of North America, Royal College of Radiologists and The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.

The network’s objective is to promote quality in radiology through collaboration, experience sharing and mutual assistance

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