Privacy

Protecting Patients

Actual images from patients have been used to make the Curriculum in Radiology Reporting clinically relevant. All images are anonymous and no protected health information (PHI) on patients is revealed. This project has been approved by the University of Florida Institutional Review Board (IRB-01). It was granted an exemption from the requirement to obtain informed consent from patients contingent upon not revealing PHI. The patient information, names, ages, and genders as well as the names of referring physicians on the images and other documents presented in this material are all entirely fictitious. The radiology reports that appear herein were all composed by authors to highlight teaching points. The reports are not direct transfers of text from any computerized patient record system.

Protecting Students

The same IRB approval covers the students that will be using CRR. Because it is primarily an educational exercise, this project does not constitute human subjects research in the sense that informed consent is required (i.e., it is considered to be exempt for IRB purposes). We will be able to track people by name and institution to enable us to generate certificates of completion for each student. Students will create personal accounts with their preferred email address as the user name and a password of their choice.

We would like to allow program directors from each residency to have access to our system to obtain lists of the residents within their programs and their progress through CRR. This will assist in the documentation effort for ACGME Competency purposes. Students must explicitly grant (or deny) permission for access to their progress records by individuals in their program. Otherwise, student identity will be strictly protected and no person other than those identified by the student (and registered in our system) will be granted access.