Three or four first year residents are appointed annually. An approved internship is a prerequistite New residents receive a departmental orientation, training in x-ray technique, normal radiographic anatomy, and the basics of film interpretation and fluoroscopic studies.
Residents assume increasing responsibility as training progresses.
In the second, third and fourth years, there are rotations through the subspecialties of interventional radiology, neuroradiology, nuclear medicine, diagnostic ultrasound, CT scanning and magnetic resonance imaging. During these years there are additional rotations in general diagnosis where the resident assumes progressively increasing responsibility. The radiology teaching staff consists of 20 attending radiologists, two diagnostic radiology physicists as well as outside consultants in genitourinary, musculoskeletal, cardiac and pediatric radiology. There are daily departmental conferences in general radiology and radiological subspecialties, regularly scheduled lectures and work labs in radiological physics and radiation biology are given throughout the residency.