Course objectives
- The lectures start with clarifying the normal anatomy of different joints and the normal MRI appearance
- It then explains how to depict the typical and more advanced pathology changes and pitfalls of injuries of the joints
- Many anatomic - MRI correlations
- Updated with recent clinically useful information
- Compared to our 1st edition there are new focus topics and the illustrative imaging material has been expanded
- Course evaluations from our previous edition rated the difficulty degree as moderately advanced to advanced
Course Language: English
INSTRUCTORS
Michel De Maeseneer is a Radiology Professor at the University Hospital Brussels (UZ Brussel, VUB) with chair: Johan de Mey. He trained and worked with Prof. Donald Resnick (UCSD, CA) , Jon Jacobson, (University of Michigan, MI), Thomas Pope Jr, and Leon Lenchik (Wake Forest, NC) in the USA for 8 years, and with Maryam Shahabpour.
Veerle De Grove trained with the UZ Brussel MSK Radiology group and is staff member and part of the MSK division at Brugmann, Brussels with chair: Mieke Cannie.
Yannick De Brucker is a staff member of the UZ Brussel and CEO of Radiologie Buggenhout. He is an alumni fellow of the University of Florida.
PROGRAM DAY 1
- 8.00: Welcome, registration
- 8.30: Focus: Basics of MRI and relevant artifacts in MSK
- 8.40: MRI of the shoulder: Bone anatomy, tendons, footprints, muscles
- 9.25: MRI arthrography of the shoulder: instability, ligaments and labrum, cable, pulley, variants
- 10.10: MRI shoulder region: capsulitis, impingement, nerves, other
- 10.30: Break
- 11.00: MRI of the elbow, tendons, ligaments, nerves, other
- 11.40: MRI of the fingers
- 12.20: Lunch
- 13.20: Wrist MRI: Bone, necrosis, fractures, malformations, other
- 14.00: Wrist MRI: TFCC and ligament fundamentals (intrinsic, extrinsic), instability
- 14.45: Midhand, and thumb
- 15.00: Break
- 15.30: Focus session: Peculiar (peri) articular incidental findings
- 15.50: Focus Session: Cartilage and subchondral bone
- 16.20: Hip joint, necrosis, degenerative, transient edema, epyphyseal fracture, other
- 16.45: Hip: Femoro-acetabular impingement (FAI)
- 17.20: Questions and Adjourn
Day 2
- 9.00: Pelvis MRI: muscles, tendons including abductors
- 9.40: MRI of SI joint: Sacroiliitis and differential
- 10.00: Focus session: a new look at the groin: adductors and inguinal canal
- 10.20: Break
- 10.50: MRI of the knee: menisci, emphasis on missed tears, unstable tears, displaced fragments, pittfalls
- 11.20: Focus session: MR knee: articular and periarticular cystic lesions
- 11.40: Focus session: Extensor mechanism, patellotrochlear dysplasia and patellar dislocation
- 12.10: Lunch
- 13.00: MR Knee: Ligaments
- 13.45: MRI of the knee: postoperative
- 14.10: MRI of the ankle and foot: ligaments, plantar fascia. Bonus: impingement fundamentals
- 15.00: Break
- 15.30: MRI of the ankle and foot: tendons. Bonus: Achilles tendon
- 16.00: MRI of the forefoot
- 16.20: MRI of ankle and foot nerves
- 16.40: The hallux: A special toe
- 17.00: Let's do the ankle twist
- 17.30: Focus session (ethics). Visual graphics in quality improvement in radiology practice.
- 18:00: Questions and certification
- 18:00-18.30: Bonus (ethics) session. Ethical work considerations for radiologists.
CERTIFICATES
COURSE 2022
Course Location: Faculteit Geneeskunde, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1090 Brussel, Belgie
Course fee: 800 euro. Registration is limited to a smaller group.
Reduced fee for radiology assistants: 500 euro ( with a certification letter from your department head).
Covid measures will be according to government and university policy at that time.
- Registration fee includes: notebook, coffee and snacks, lunches, a printed color syllabus.
- Traffic and parking information will be mailed to you before the course
- Credit points will be requested at RIZIV-INAMI for a 2 day course
Information: mskmricourse@gmail.com
- Registration ends when the course is fully booked
- Cancellation policy on your initiative: before 3 weeks: refund, after that no refund.
- For international participants. Check your country's and the Belgian government 's requirements.
- In case of need of cancellation of the course because of COVID we will refund or transfer to a next date, as you choose.
Credits:
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