Research Agenda
This research agenda addresses issues concerned with maximizing health care efficiency and effectiveness in a provider environment of limited resources. The ideas and issues under each topic are by no means complete and may overlap with issues listed in other areas.
We know that all of the research projects implied by this agenda cannot be initiated. Rather, we offer the agenda as a wish list for the radiologic sciences to stimulate students, faculty and practicing radiologic technologists to incorporate these issues in their own research.
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Education
- Methods
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- Educational technology and distance learning
- Learning outcomes assessment
- Strategies for teaching nontraditional students
- Teaching/learning strategies
- Curricula
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- Advanced practice
- Clinical education
- Curriculum effectiveness
- Ethics
- New program development
- Re-entry education/curriculum
- Issues
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- Diversity/cultural competency
- Faculty development
- Professional values and commitment
- Student/faculty recruitment and retention
Management
- Challenges
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- Coding and billing/reimbursement
- Impact of regulations and legislation on management
- Measuring and improving customer satisfaction
- Work force re-entry skill development
- Knowing and Serving Your Work Force
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- Continuing education/work force development
- Job satisfaction and recognition
- Linking worker performance to quality of care
- Team building
- Tools
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- Academic partnerships
- Best and model practice benchmarking surveys
- Professional development/continuing education productivity measurements
- Employee recruitment and retention
- Skill validation (competency evaluation)
- Issues
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- Applications training
- Cost-benefit analyses of new technologies
- Ethics
- Expectations of new graduate performance
- Work force diversity
Practice
- Adapting to/Creating Change
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- Blurring of departmental boundaries
- Impact of new technologies, including fusion technologies
- Effects of changing demographics
- Teleradiology and new information systems
- Meeting Patient Needs and Demands
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- Malpractice/liability issues
- Patient care outcomes
- Procedural best practices
- Professional Development
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- Advanced practice
- Burnout/satisfaction
- Career ladder cross-training
- Horizontal vs. vertical development
- Independent practice
- Lifelong learning/continuing education
- Professional image
- Validating certification (entry and advanced levels)
- Issues
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- Diversity
- Educational levels for practice
- Ethics
- Graying of profession
- Limited licensure
- Practice standards
Technology
- Adapting
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- Coding and billing/reimbursement for new technologies
- New technologies’ impact on required knowledge and skills
- Education level required to adapt to rapid change
- Outside consultants vs. internal development
- Assessing
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- Feasibility of incorporating new technologies into practice standards
- Impact of emerging technologies on costs, revenue, professional image, productivity, satisfaction, outcomes and time
- Issues
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- Advantages vs. negative outcomes/impact of technological development
- Applications training
- Asymptomatic screening using new technologies