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The American Board of Radiology requires a clinical
year before entry into a diagnostic radiology residency program.
Residents accepted into our program must have completed that year
in an LCME-approved graduate training program.
The four years of
the residency are spent in the traditional radiology curriculum,
which offers a wide variety of instructional opportunities with
extensive pathologic variation. Interactive case and didactic conferences
are held daily. We bring in nationally known guest lecturers from
other universities and hospitals. Interdepartmental conferences,
medical and surgical grand rounds, and ward rounds provide active
exchange with other hospital clinical services. The clinical training
program is designed for progressive, supervised responsibility for
patient care of diagnostic radiology, radiation biology, radiation
protection, and pathology.
The diagnostic radiology clinical teaching service is divided into
10 sub-specialty areas taught by full-time faculty instructors:
- Neuroradiology
- Musculoskeletal
- Vascular and interventional
- Breast imaging
- Chest
- Pediatric
- Ultrasonography (including obstetrical and vascular)
- Abdominal imaging
- Genitourinary
- Nuclear radiology
All diagnostic radiology residents attend a four-week radiologic
pathologic course at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in
Washington, D.C. Memorial University Medical Center will pay registration, housing,
and reasonable living expenses.
Striving for standards of excellence in resident education, patient
care, and research has shaped both short- and long-term planning
and has become the hallmark of this program.
Program Statistics
Our board pass rate -- 100 percent
First-year radiology positions (PGY-2) offered -- 3
Total residency positions -- 14
NRMP Number -- 197162
Program Objectives
- To provide quality education in all areas of diagnostic imaging,
including plain film interpretation, nuclear fluoroscopy, ultrasound,
computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and all facets
of roentgen diagnosis. To actively use medical knowledge to solve
medical problems.
- To provide excellent patient care. To gather data, order diagnostic
tests, interpret data, make decisions, perform procedures, manage
patient therapies, and work with others to provide patient-focused
care.
- To encourage and support research by residents in areas including
basic science, clinical evaluation technology assessment, and outcomes
analysis as applied to diagnostic radiology.
- To analyze practice performance and carry out needed improvements.
To locate and apply scientific evidence to the care of patients,
critically appraise the scientific literature, use the computer
to support learning and patient care, and facilitate the learning
of other healthcare professionals.
- To develop a therapeutic relationship with patients and their
families. To use verbal and non-verbal skills to communicate effectively
with patients and their families. To work effectively as a team
member or leader.
- To demonstrate integrity and honesty, accept responsibility,
act in the best interest of the patient, and demonstrate sensitivity
to the patient's ethnicity, age, and disabilities.
- To demonstrate awareness of interdependencies in the healthcare
system that affect quality of care. To provide cost-effective care,
advocate for quality patient care, work with hospital management
and interdisciplinary teams to improve patient care.
- To prepare residents for understanding the various different healthcare delivery systems in operation today.
- To prepare residents for certification by the American Board of Radiology.
- To successfully prepare board certified diagnostic radiologists to provide effective, competent, cost-effective medical care in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment.
Equipment
The equipment in the department includes modern radiographic equipment,
teleradiology, two spiral CT scanners, color flow Doppler ultrasound
equipment, two state-of-the-art angiographic suites, and a GE 1.5
Tesla on-site MR facility.
The volume and variety of patients at Memorial University Medical Center is diverse and certainly allows for necessary and sufficient experience for residency training. There are more than 187,500 examinations performed by our department annually and more than 26,000 hospital admissions annually.
Teaching Conferences
During the four-year program, extensive case and didactic conferences are held daily. We invite guest lecturers in from other universities and hospitals nationwide. Interdepartmental conferences, medical and surgical grand rounds, and ward rounds provide active exchange with other hospital clinical services. Residents and faculty also present at a monthly Journal Club. There is a weekly book review as well as a monthly quality assurance conference.
Additional Information
Memorial University Medical Center has a multi-million dollar educational complex consisting
of a 157-seat distance learning auditorium, two anatomical dissection
teaching laboratories, medical education media services, and associated
classroom space. Our facilities allow for two-way interactive demonstration
of live procedures from the operating rooms and access to top medical
educators from academic centers across the United States.
Memorial University Medical Center offers
a combination of high-quality instruction, excellent laboratory
facilities, and a significant volume of clinical material. Practicing
surgeons and residents from throughout the world regularly attend surgical training courses through
our two major teaching laboratories. The chance to
practice procedures using simulation, computer-based training, live
models, and human cadaver material is a sound educational approach
in acquiring technique, gaining confidence, and developing innovations
and personal style prior to graduated clinical experience in the
operating room.
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