EDUCATION

The department has 121 physicians or physician-scientists on faculty and 28 scientists, for a faculty:resident ratio of more than 3:1.

Our faculty includes some of the most prominent leaders in radiology education.  We currently have five faculty members – more than any other department - on the board of directors of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), including the presidents of the AUR and its affiliated society, the Alliance of Clinician-Educators in Radiology. The chairs of the RSNA and ARRS/ACR education committees are members of our department, as are the program chair of the ARRS Clinician-Educator Development Program and the senior faculty advisor of the American Alliance of Academic Chief Residents in Radiology.

Many of our faculty members are sought after as speakers at national and international meetings, and several of them have written widely-read texts. In addition to experts in the various subfields of radiology, the faculty includes authorities in outcomes and health services research, basic and translational science, and the business, law, and ethics of radiology.

Our faculty members take great pride and interest in day-to-day informal teaching, as well as in formal education of our residents. Morning and noon conferences are offered daily at UW Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center. Daily conferences are also given at Children’s Hospital and the VA Medical Center. Conferences are led by faculty with clinical expertise in their respective subspecialties.

A weekly core curriculum is held on Thursday afternoons. All residents are excused from clinical service to attend these conferences, which are held at UW Medical Center. The core curriculum is composed of four-week long blocks of lectures in the various subspecialties of radiology.

For the PGY-2 residents, daily introductory lectures are given during the summer months, as well as a month of weekly conferences in the spring in preparation for night call. 

Physics lectures are given weekly for six months beginning in January for the residents who are studying for the board examination.  Other conferences cover the business of radiology, health services research, and journal club.

All PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents are excused from their rotations to attend one of two UW continuing medical education (CME) courses:  Emergency Radiology in the summer and the “Not Just for Residents” review course in the spring. Resident registration is complimentary.