icMRI 2020

The annual scientific meeting of KSMRM, icMRI, was held (finally) on Tues-Wednesday of this week (11/3-4). The meeting was postponed twice, originally scheduled for March but delayed due to uncertainties related to the pandemic. From now on the meeting is likely to be held every November. Given the circumstances, the meeting was run smoothly, with over 1000 registrants reported, on par with  the previous years. The meeting provided a much awaited platform for technical exchange and information flow in the new socially distanced era, but the limitation of on-line meeting sessions was also clear, in terms to lack of speaker-audience interaction, or even speaker-speaker conversations off-stage. For one thing, everybody was stiffer and looking/sounding more serious in front of the cameras.  

MRI education day by KSMRM

 

This year's annual MRI education day for radiologists was held in Sungkyunkwan University on Saturday October 24th. Due to the Covid pandemic, many meetings and conferences are being held on-line without live audience, and this event was no exception. The event itself had been scaled back from 6 hours to 4 hours, and much effort was spent to ensure stable on-line streaming to sufficient participants to maintain the reach and quality of the education. All the eight speakers participated in person in a lecture room at the N center (picture), and at least 270 people had pre-registered for the event, which exceeded expectation. The lectures were delivered on time, without incident. They were recorded for future reference, and hopefully will provide a guide to organizing similar events in the future.