ESOR Special Focus Series - Advancing Radiology Education and Evaluation

Memory and the Foundations of Education

October 13, 2026 | 13:00 CEST

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COURSE INFORMATION

Through the Special Focus Series initiative, ESOR offers specialised courses on timely and relevant topics in radiology.

Across four focused webinars, this course will examine the principles of learning and memory, and introduce strategies to improve teaching and assessment in radiology. You will learn to engage learners through storytelling, design fair and effective multiple-choice questions, and understand the potential and limits of artificial intelligence in assessment. By the end of the course, you will be ready to apply these approaches to enhance your everyday teaching and evaluation.
 
 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • To describe the basic principles of how the brain learns and how memory is formed and retained
  • Apply storytelling techniques to enhance engagement and knowledge retention in radiology teaching
  • Differentiate between well-constructed and poorly constructed multiple-choice questions
  • Design fair, valid and reliable multiple-choice questions for radiology education and assessment
  • Evaluate the potential and limitations of artificial intelligence in generating multipleresponse questions
  • Integrate evidence-based educational strategies into daily teaching and assessment practice in radiology

 

PROGRAMME ONLINE

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

13:00 - 13:05 Introduction
Annemiek Snoeckx, Antwerp, Belgium
 
13:05 - 13:45 Memory and the Foundations of Education
Jan Breckwoldt, Zurich, Switzerland
 
13:45 - 14:00 Q&A
All speakers

 

How to collect CME credits

A CME certificate will be issued automatically if the following criteria are met: 

- You need to attend the course online via live stream in full length.

- You have to complete the electronic evaluation questionnaire. To do so, please click the “Course Evaluation” button displayed on the right column of the course page or go to the section “My Evaluation” of your ESR Connect account.

Evaluation is open from October 13, 14:00 CEST until October 20, 23:59 CEST and CME certificates can be downloaded in your ESR Connect user area under 'My Certificates'.