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). 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), and a musculoskeletal radiology rotation at the Carrell Memorial Clinic in Dallas.
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. We have a medium size residency training program, which we will feel 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 means that our residents have 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. It is this diversity of patients, which we feel sets our residency apart from many others.
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 physicans, attorneys, CPA, CFP, Insurance agents, Medical Coding experts, and others that are associated with our radiology group in some way. 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 assist our residents in making a seamless transition into a career in the world of clinical or academic medicine.
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