The Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a full service general medical and surgical hospital and specialized care referral center affiliated with the University of Minnesota. The hospital isloacted six miles south of the University of Minnesota campus. The Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Services perform 120,000 imaging examinations and 54,000 in vitro examinations per year. There are 15 full time staff physicians and a physicist, all of whom are board certified either in Diagnostic Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, or both. The Residency and Fellowship Training Programs are totally integrated with the University of Minnesota.
All residents freely rotate between the two hospitals.
A full compliment of conferences are provided during the resident's rotation. Residents are on call approximately one night per week and provided free parking during their rotations and meals when on call. HCMC is the accredited regional Level One Trauma Center. Full-time faculty are assigned to each residency rotation. The department has state of the art equipment in CT, MRI, angiography, ultrasound and general radiography.