Education

The training program is tailored to the needs of each individual fellow with a considerable amount of flexibility under the supervision of the program director. Graduated levels of responsibility are provided. A close relationship between faculty mentors and fellows is the standard leading to collaboration in career development, academic activities, and general educational progress.

The training program lasts for a period of twelve months. This includes:

• Six months of general diagnostic radiology including fluoroscopy, inpatient and outpatient film interpretation and cross-sectional body imaging with clinical conference participation
• One month of vacation
• Five months of rotations in electives, including options such as nuclear medicine, neuroradiology, interventional radiology and fetal imaging

Throughout the year, fellows takes graduated night and weekend call in a shared pool with rotating radiology residents, with increasing levels of responsibility in their rotations.

Didactic lectures are given each morning. Interesting case conferences in neuro and body imaging are presented weekly. Journal clubs are presented monthly with fellows and residents in attendance. Combined case conferences with other specialties occur throughout the month including:

• Fetal
• Gastroenterology
• Genetics
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Oncology
• Orthopedics
• Otolaryngology
• Surgery
• Urology

At times, the fellows are requested to present in pediatric professorial rounds and surgery-path conferences.

The fellows are expected to present at interesting case conferences and develop two didactic lectures during their training. Each fellow is responsible for presenting a basic radiology lecture on the chest to rotating medical students from The George Washington University. Time is provided to complete a quality improvement project of the fellow’s choice.