Our radiology residency program is a combination of five 5-year categorical positions that span postgraduate years 1-5, and two advanced positions that span postgraduate years 2-5. The latter two spots require the matched applicant to also match for an internship or transitional year for postgraduate year one. For the categorical 5-year residents, the clinical internship is automatically acquired at Baylor during PGY-1. This year is a modified internal medicine preliminary year that contains the following rotations: Ward Medicine (6 months), CCU (2 months), medicine elective (1 month), and radiology or other elective (3 months). The elective time may be spent in radiology thus allowing the resident to begin their formal radiology training in their first postgraduate year. All five categorical residents who match with our program will be entering this clinical year automatically.
For postgraduate years 2-5, the entirety of our resident's graduate education will be spent at the parent institution of Baylor University Medical Center – Dallas, except for a three (3) month rotation which is provided in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital of Dallas (affiliate of University of Texas Southwestern Medical School radiology training program). This excellent three month pediatric rotation is under the guidance of the director of pediatric radiology, Dr. Nancy Rollins. We do have an additional pediatric radiology rotation at our parent institute, which is under the guidance of Dr. Gregory Weisbruch, who did a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Children’s Hospital. Residents also complete an outstanding musculoskeletal radiology rotation at the Carrell Memorial Clinic in Dallas In addition, all of our residents are given the opportunity to attend the four week Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) course in Washington, DC during the PGY4 year.
Residents are appointed to our residency as described in the section of this syllabus entitled "Selection of Residents". We currently are approved for 28 residents and we match for 7 residents a year. Five of the residents are categorical residents who automatically perform their internship at Baylor, and two are advanced residents who need to match for an internship at another institution or at Baylor. We have a medium size residency training program, which we believe is large enough to absorb the impact of on-call and weekend responsibilities, but small enough to provide the one-on-one individual attention that we like to afford each resident in our training program. Our department performs around 475,000 exams per year, and radiology residents participate in a large percentage of these cases. This results in an exceptional exposure to both a high quality and quantity of material to learn from. Our patient population has an excellent balance of tertiary referral, private insurance, indigent care, and transplant-related services. Our diversity of patients, collegiality between subspecialties, and quality teaching set our residency apart from many others.
Lastly, our program has developed a biweekly "Professionalism in Radiology" lecture series. The purpose of this lecture series is to identify the non-clinical professional development needs of the BUMC radiology residents and create relevant educational offerings so that participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate the level of professionalism and leadership required for effective performance in today's practice settings. The lecture team consists of physicians, attorneys, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), insurance agents, medical coding experts, and others that are associated with our radiology group. This is a unique aspect of our training program, and the most advanced professionalism, non-interpretive lecture curriculum in the country. We hope that this assists our residents in making a seamless transition into a career in the world of clinical or academic medicine.
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