Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
J Am Coll Radiol. 2010 May;7(5):346-50. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2009.12.016.
Professional associations advocate for their members' interests; provide forums for education, training, and certification; and support domain-specific research and development efforts. The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of resources devoted to the leadership committees of professional radiology associations in the United States. Internet research was conducted to identify general, subspecialty, and special interest radiology associations, followed by a survey that focused on the number of committees and the average number of members per committee for each association. Established or published benchmarks were used to calculate committee-related annual expenditures from the survey data. Two hundred forty full-time equivalents, or nearly $100 million, are devoted to leadership activities within radiology associations each year. This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the professional income in radiology. These resources have enabled individual radiologists and societies to cooperate on important initiatives. More research should be conducted on other specialties or industries to provide comparable data on the optimal investment in the leadership effort.
专业协会倡导其成员的利益；提供教育、培训和认证的论坛；并支持特定领域的研究和开发工作。本研究的目的是确定美国专业放射学协会的领导委员会所投入的资源数量。通过互联网搜索确定了一般、亚专业和特殊利益放射学协会，然后进行了一项调查，重点是每个协会的委员会数量和每个委员会的平均成员人数。利用既定或公布的基准，根据调查数据计算与委员会相关的年度支出。每年有 240 个全职当量，或近 1 亿美元，用于放射学协会的领导活动。这相当于放射学专业收入的约 1%。这些资源使放射科医生和学会能够就重要倡议进行合作。应该对其他专业或行业进行更多研究，以提供关于领导力投入的最佳投资的可比数据。
