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Radiology Residency & Fellowship Information

Welcome to the Department of Radiology Residency Program

Thank you for your interest in our Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program. The principle objective of the program is to train highly competent, well-rounded, responsible clinical radiologists with positive attitudes towards research and continuing education. Emphasis is placed on training the resident to assume the role of consultant on the patient-care team, while also participating as a direct-care provider of diagnostic and therapeutic invasive imaging procedures. The program strives to provide a high-quality educational program with in-depth practical experience in all radiological subspecialties. Basic and clinical research is encouraged for residents.

If you have any questions that are not answered to your satisfaction on this website feel free to contact me or our department Educational Coordinator, Suzanne Berlowitz:

Thank you for your interest in our program. We look forward to receiving your application.

Edward Michals, M.D.
Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
Director, Diagnostic Neuroradiology

Residency Program Director

Radiology Faculty

Residency Program Accrediation Information

Strengths of the Residency Program

Program Highlights

Academic Curriculum

Conference

Call Schedule

Benefits

Application Process

Fellowships

UIC GME Policies & Procedures

 

Residency Program Accrediation Information

ACGME Accredited?	Yes
Original Accreditation Date	October 1, 1974
Accredited Length of Training	4 Years
Program Requires Prior or Additional Accredited GME Training?	Yes, requires 1 year of previous training
Total Residents Currently in the Program	32

 

Strengths of the Residency Program

• Variety of training environments (4 training sites)
• One-on-one interaction with attending radiologists
  • Residents Coverage predominates
  • Very few fellows
• High volume of procedures
  • The total number of procedures performed at the UIC Hospital and Outpatient Care Center in the fiscal year of 2007, exceeded 180,000
• State-of-the-art equipment
  • MRI (9.4T,3.0T,1.5T)
  • CT (64 slice, 16 slice, 8 slice)
• Medical-Center-wide GE PACS
• Electronic medical record system – instant access to clinical information

Program Highlights

• Training hospitals/clinics include:
• UIC Hospital (UIH) = university teaching hospital
• Children's Memorial Hospital (CMH) = tertiary-care pediatric hospital
• Mercy Hospital = nearby large community hospital
• Graded responsibility with increasing experience
• All cases/studies are reviewed with attendings radiologist
• Curriculum includes all subspecialties
  • General (Mercy, UIC)
    • Chest
    • Musculoskeletal
  • Body Imaging (Mercy, UIC)
    • Body CT
    • Body MR
  • Neuroradiology (UIC)
    • Head CT
    • MRI
    • Diagnostic/interventional neuroangiography
    • Head & Neck
  • Nuclear Medicine (UIC, Mercy) (4 Months Minimum - ACR Requirement)
  • Ultrasound
    • Body Ultrasound (UIC, Mercy)
    • OB Ultrasound (Mercy)
  • Mammography (3 Months Minimum - ACR Requirement)
  • Pedicatrics (CMH)
  • GI/GU Fluroscope (UIC, Mercy)
  • Interventional Radiology (UIC)

Academic Curriculum

• Repeating Core curriculum corresponding to the 11 subspecialty categories that the American Board of Radiology (ABR) specifies.
• Conference format is both didactic & case based
• Annual ACR in-service.
• Annual Resident Research Symposium
  
  

Conference

• Daily noon conference.
• Additional 7AM and 4PM.
• Weekly Grand Rounds.
• Combined Conference with the clinical sevices (Neurology, GI, GU, ENT, Neurosurgey, Rheumatology).

Call Schedule

• No independent call during first year
• Attending and senior resident is available for the consultation through a teleradiology service Post-call resident reviews prior night's ER studies with an attending.
• Night Float System
• Responsibilities include:
• Interpreting emergency and emergent radilogical studies (plain films, CT, US, etc.)
• Performing as a house staff consultant.
• Out of house call during the 3rd and the 4th years and includes angiographic procedures.

Benefits

• Books subsidy of $250
• Conference allowances include:
  • AFIP allowance during 3rd year
  • Time-off for conference during 4th year
  • Allowance and time for any presentation at a conference
  • 1-3 days off for RSNA depending on PGY Level.
• Vacations are scheduled individually and include:
  • Twenty workdays (four weeks) per year
  • Standard UNIVERSITY holidays, sick days, etc
• Library and media services include:
  • PC computers with multimedia capabilities, a scanner, slide-maker, etc
  • Medical-Center-wide computer network providing every user with a personalized desktop that provides access to e-mail, Internet, Office applications, web-based PACS viewer, medical record system, and other clinical applications
  • Department library includes CD-ROM’s, ACR laserdiscs, Radiology journals, textbooks, and teaching files
    

Application Process

• All applications are accepted only via the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)
• All applicants are required to have completed an approved internship before entering a radiology residency
• The application deadline is September 30, 2009.
• Applications are reviewed on a continuous basis untill late December
• Interviews are scheduled for January
• Seven new PGY-2 positions per year are matched through the NRMP
  
  

Fellowships

• Interventional radiology
  

Click here to email us for further information about fellowship programs

 

University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center Department of Radiology (M/C 931) 1740 West Taylor Street, Room 2483 Chicago, IL 60612 Phone: (312) 996-3971 Fax: (312) 996-8097 Click here to send an email

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Last Updated: 09/21/2009

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