Emergency coverage - by pager. Responsibility for call is shared with the nuclear medicine attending staff and senior radiology residents. When residents is on call, an attending physician is on back up call. Interpretation of most studies is performed from home via teleradiology. Research by trainees is encouraged but not required.
Residents participate in ongoing projects or to strike out with their own project.
A majority of residents do publish in peer-reviewed journals, half of them more than once and most as primary authors.