Further to discussion, ISRRT decided to move forwards with a pilot project to create and publish an e-book on its e-learning platform. In the pilot project the feasibility of creating, editing and publishing a book will be assessed and if successful it is hoped an annual e-book will be published thereafter, to cover a range of topics as time progresses. Once published, the book will be free to download.
For the pilot, the proposed book will be called ‘Lessons learnt and personal experiences of adapting to and working within a pandemic’. Its purpose is to ‘Provide an international historical record of problems, solutions, working practices and personal perspectives from professional and family contexts of therapy and diagnostic radiographers’; and ‘Provide a resource which may have future value to therapy and diagnostic radiographers, if another pandemic occurs’.( Please scroll further down this page to read the “Pilot to develop and test a method to publish ebooks on ISRRT eLearning platform).
Book editors will be Peter Hogg, a retired UK educator and researcher in diagnostic radiography and nuclear medicine (Peter Hogg (researchgate.net) and Ken Holmes who is also a retired UK educator and researcher in diagnostic radiography and nuclear medicine (Ken Holmes (researchgate.net).
The purpose of this communication is to ask for people to volunteer to be a book chapter author. The suggested chapters are indicated below:
• Coping with home and professional life
• How your professional role changed because of the pandemic
• What changes occurred for you at work and how did you cope with these changes
• Commentaries on any new resources about covid-19 created by your country or internationally to help you do your job and cope socially
• Knowing what we know now, how might we approach a pandemic differently in the future?
• Critical reflections on web-based ISRRT resources about covid-19 offered during the pandemic
• What else?
• Patient experience (ley) and patient experience (a radiographer who had covid)
• Development of the vaccine and the vaccination process
• PPE – training and adequacy
• Workload issues and patient access to services – waiting list changes and pressures
• Environmental changes
• Health and well-being support
• CPD implications
• Patient pathway changes
• Treatment regimen changes
• Any relocation to different work areas internally or externally to other wards/hospital services
• Student perspectives
• Educator perspectives on delivery of programmes and student impact
If you are interested in writing a chapter, please can you contact Peter Hogg (p.hogg@salford.ac.uk) and/or Ken Holmes (kenny.g.holmes@gmail.com ) by 30 April 2021 and indicate which chapter you are interested in writing?
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“Pilot to develop and test a method to publish ebooks on ISRRT eLearning platform”
Proposed title: “Radiography during the covid-19 pandemic: global perspectives in practice, education and research”
Topic
- ‘Lessons learnt and personal experiences of adapting to and working within a pandemic’
Purpose of this ebook
- Provide an international historical record of problems, solutions, working practices and personal perspectives from professional and family contexts of therapy and diagnostic radiographers
- Provide a resource which may have future value to therapy and diagnostic radiographers, if another pandemic occurs
Chapters
- Chapter authors
- Drawn from a range of countries
- Therapy and diagnostic
- Clinical staff, including entry level through to senior
- Teaching staff, including entry level through to senior
- Researchers, including university- and clinical-based
- Managers
- Industry / commercial sector
- Leaders, including local, national and international
- A radiographer who has been a covid patient – their experiences as a patient
- A covid patient who is not a healthcare worker
- Chapter content
- Limited to 2000 words
- Are personal perspectives and do not necessarily need to be referenced academic pieces
- We could have 2 or 3 on the exact same topic, but from different countries
- Suggested chapters
- Coping with home and professional life
- How your professional role changed because of the pandemic
- What changes occurred for you at work and how did you cope with these changes
- Commentaries on any new resources about covid-19 created by your country or internationally to help you do your job and cope socially
- Knowing what we know now, how might we approach a pandemic differently in the future?
- Critical reflections on web-based ISRRT resources about covid-19 offered during the pandemic
- What else??
- Patient experience (ley) and patient experience (a radiographer who had covid)
- Development of the vaccine and the vaccination process
- PPE – training and adequacy
- Workload issues and patient access to services – waiting list changes and pressures
- Environmental changes
- Health and well-being support
- CPD implications
- Patient pathway changes
- Treatment regimen changes
- Any relocation to different work areas internally or externally to other wards/hospital services
- Student perspective
- Research
Proposal
- For pre and post registration purposes, provide free educational content about topical areas of medical imaging and radiotherapy
- Facilitate collaborative working, to enable content production and international professional networking
- Give novice and naive writers a chance to write for publication by working alongside experienced authors
Working methods
- A small editorial board would report to ISRRT Executive and be responsible for managing content, including identification of authors, content development, content quality assurance, content promotion, content revision and identification, support and management of authors. Operating procedures similar to peer reviewed journals / textbooks will be created to achieve this. Establishing the mechanisms and networks needed to achieve this will take several months.
- Peer review (quality assurance) would be conducted prior to publication; this function would be achieved by editorial board members
- Small authorship teams, to develop and revise key content areas, would comprise experienced and novice / naïve writers
- Topics for content would be agreed between ISRRT Executive and the editorial board
