OCTOBER 2012

SMRT PUBLICATIONS GO ELECTRONIC & SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATE

Rhonda Walcarius, B.Sc.,R.T.(R)(MR)
Chair, Publications Committee
 “Also new to the SMRT is the subcommittee headed by Greg Brown, Social Media.”
In an effort to stay current and “go green,”, the SMRT has made changes to it publications. At the May 2012 Annual Meeting in Melbourne, the SMRT Policy Board unanimously voted to approve the home studies to go “electronic.” The SMRT is so fortunate to have Anne Sawyer as SMRT home studies editor. In wanting to give our members as many educational opportunities as possible, Anne has produced video home studies of the 2012 Annual Meeting. In this way, members who were not able to attend the annual meeting can still have the opportunity to earn CE credits and members who did attend but would like to see one of the talks again, can do so. Anne has also been converting anatomical paper home studies into electronic versions, reproducing some educational seminars to electronic versions and also working on new electronic home studies. Not a member of the SMRT, no worries, Anne has also included some non-member electronic home studies for CE credit. So please, members of the SMRT, encourage your non-member friends to try out our educational content and see if they would like to join SMRT and benefit from educational material dedicated exclusively to MR.

E-Signals has been a dream of Julie Peay’s, Editor of SMRT Signals Newsletter for a few years now and it is wonderful to see her vision becoming a reality. Julie has done remarkable work with the Signals Newsletter and I look forward to see what she will do with E-Signals. We hope you enjoy this first edition and also invite you to view any past editions of the Signals newsletter on line. Again, please encourage non-members to view these as well as they are available to everyone. Why E-Signals? It gives the SMRT an opportunity to provide you with more up to the minute information that Signals Newsletter could not and again, we do our part in saving trees by going paperless. If you have any suggestions or comments on how to improve our E-Signals, please e-mail Editor Julie Peay at jpeay@wi.rr.com or the SMRT office smrt@ismrm.org

Also new to the SMRT is the subcommittee headed by Greg Brown, Social Media. Greg took it upon himself to start a Facebook page for the SMRT Annual Meeting in Melbourne resulting in a new look for the SMRT Facebook page. Other members of the Social Media Committee are: Sony Boiteaux, Ben Kennedy, Vera Kimbrell, Carol Lee, Michael Schlenk and Charles Stanley. If you aren’t already a friend of the Facebook page, please consider becoming one.

There are so many opportunities for both members and non-members to take advantage of;, as the SMRT strives to provide an international forum for education, information and research in magnetic resonance for technologists and radiographers throughout the world.