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Women in academic medicine, and radiology specifically, are underrepresented in departmental leadership roles and achieve fewer professional metrics of success. We have observed, however, that women are more broadly represented in medical education leadership. The purpose of this study was to determine if women in academic radiology are overrepresented in educational scholarship and educational leadership compared to general research scholarship and leadership positions, and to determine if there is any difference in the distribution of women in these roles compared to internal medicine.We performed a PubMed search of education articles in radiology and internal medicine over the last 5 years, and the gender of the authors was determined. Data on gender for authorship of general research topics, departmental leaders, and society leadership was obtained via literature and internet searches and the data was aggregated. Representation ratios (RR of 1.0 = parity) were obtained via risk ratio calculation to compare education versus general scholarship, and the distribution of leadership roles within and between these fields.Women make up 28.5% of academic radiologists and 40.1% of academic internists. A higher proportion of education articles were first authored by women than would be expected in both fields with an RR of 1.46 (p0.001) in radiology and 1.23 (p0.001) in internal medicine. This overrepresentation was significant compared to general research scholarship in both fields (p0.001). In both fields, women were overrepresented in the position of Medical Student Director (RR of 1.47 and 1.22, respectively). For Program Directors, women were overrepresented in radiology (RR of 1.12) and underrepresented in internal medicine (RR of 0.69-0.75). Women in radiology were overrepresented in education society leadership (RR = 1.63) compared to general society leadership (0.98, p = 0.001).We found that women in radiology are overrepresented in authorship of education articles, and in departmental and society education leadership roles. This trend was also seen in internal medicine, suggesting that women are more broadly represented in medical education.

© 2016 The Association of University Radiologists Rationale and Objectives We aimed to evaluate whether implementation of a low-dose computed tomography (CT)-guided lung biopsy protocol, with the support of individual radiologists in the section, would lead to immediate and sustained decreases in radiation dose associated with CT-guided lung biopsies. Materials and Methods A low-dose CT-guided lung biopsy protocol was developed with modifications of kilovoltage peak, milliamperes, and scan coverage. Out of 413 CT-guided lung biopsies evaluated over a 3-year period beginning in 2009, 175 performed with a standard protocol before the development of a low-dose protocol, and 238 performed with a low-dose protocol. The dose-length product (DLP) was recorded for each lung biopsy and retrospectively compared between the two protocols. Individual radiologist level DLPs were also compared before and after the protocol change. Results The mean biopsy dose decreased by 64.4% with the low-dose protocol (113.8 milligray centimeters versus 319.7 milligray centimeters; P