The radiologist usually requires at least seven or more years of medical training.
Radiologists are licensed physicians with a specialty in working with imaging equipment, X-ray machines and/or radioactive materials used to diagnose or treat patients. Due to the precise nature of radiology, advanced training beyond basic medical school usually takes four or more years. Determining the top radiology residency programs is highly subjective and difficult. U.S. News & World Report has occasionally ranked radiology residency programs as have others. In the end, when applying to a program a student needs to be guided by his instinct, desires and best judgment.
Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins
Baltimore's John Hopkins Medical Institution's radiology department residency program has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best in the country. As with all residency programs, it is highly competitive, taking only 10 applicants annually into the four-year residency program. Over the course of those four years, residents can pursue either a diagnostic radiology track or a research residency track. They are trained in all facets of radiology during the four rigorous years, including nine specific physiological areas from the chest and musculoskeletal radiology to abdominal and cardiovascular.
Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
601 North Caroline Street, Room 4214
Baltimore, MD 21287-0801
410-614-3249
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Another highly-ranked program is housed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, which makes no more than 10 appointments a year to its four-year program that begins after a one-year clinical internship. While the program is comprehensive, it focuses on preparing the next generation of academic radiologists. The residents are trained a variety of radiology specialties with emphasis on angiography and neuroradiology along with intervention procedures. A focused year during the residency allows the resident to pursue a radiological specialty that can be credited to a multi-year fellowship program to be completed following the radiology residency.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Theresa C. McLoud, MD
Department of Radiology
FND 216
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
617-726-2000
massgeneral.org/radiology/index.asp
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco
After an initial post-graduate year, as many as 14 residents enter the University of California San Francisco's individualized and structured radiology residency program. Residents take 12 weeks of mammography and 16 weeks of nuclear medicine and have up to a year for focused experience or research of particular interest. Emphasis throughout the program is on learning and success. A "core curriculum" has been devised to provide residents lectures on the fundamentals of various radiological specialties. As fourth year residents prepare for oral and written boards, the UCSF instructors meet with them several evenings a week to review crucial material.
Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
University of California, San Francisco
505 Parnassus Avenue, M-391
San Francisco, CA 94143-0628
415-353-2573
radiology.ucsf.edu/
Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania oversees two radiological residency programs, one at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and another at Pennsylvania Hospital. Both are diagnostic radiological programs. The HUP has 10 or 11 residents annually in three distinct areas: clinical, research and direct intervention. The Pennsylvania Hospital accepts five residents focused on both clinical and non-clinical radiology. The fourth year at HUP is structured to allow the resident latitude in developing his personal radiological interests. Pennsylvania Hospital affords residents an opportunity to conduct pediatric radiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and take a course in radiological pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC.
Department of Radiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-615-1704
uphs.upenn.edu/radiology/
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