Applications are generally received during the winter of the candidate's Junior year with final selection of fellows made in January or February. The fellowship experience encompasses a broad clinical exposure to all aspects of modern diagnostic and therapeutic neuroradiology, including angiography, myelography, CT, MR, PET, ENT, and neurosonography. The first year is largely clinical and procedure-oriented, with a required core of neuroradiology subjects. The second year is more flexible, tailored to meet the personal educational and career goals of each fellow.
Research is encouraged and supported throughout the fellowship.
Six of our former fellows are in academic medicine, three have won the Dyke Award, and two are Rhodes Scholars. A robust MR physics program, with research into flow measurement, phantom design and innovative pulse sequence development complements the neuroradiology experience. Serving a population of over 2,000,000 people, it represents the closest academic medical center to patients in western North Carolina, southern Virginia, and western South Carolina. The neuroradiology case load comprises a well-balanced mixture of congenital, traumatic, degenerative, infectious, and neoplastic diseases. The Medical Center houses a 150 bed children's hospital, a rehabilitation facility, and a comprehensive cancer center.