Program Curriculum

The Fellowship involves training in multi-modality imaging of the chest, abdomen, pelvis and vascular system with predominant emphasis on MR.

Rotations are four week long and based on modalities to include MR, CT and US. The MR experience includes diffusion weighted imaging, prostate MR, transplant work up, pre- and post-workup of targeted hepatocellular CA therapy, MR enterography, dynamic pelvic floor imaging and Gynecologic oncology.

The CT experience includes CT colonography, lung screening in high risk population, CT angiograms and oncologic imaging. Ultrasound includes routine abdominal and pelvic, thyroid, testes, early obstetrics, thyroid biopsies, vascular/transplant applications and elastography.

Fellows learn through daily case studies with one on one teaching with faculty, didactic lectures, multi-disciplinary conferences (liver, GI, GU, prostate, thoracic and lung nodule). They are based at Loyola University Medical Center although we also image at several outpatient imaging centers and satellite locations.

Fellows also have dedicated elective rotations (two blocks), which are tailored to individual needs, including, but not limited to musculoskeletal, neuroradiology, breast, IR, PET/CT and cardiac imaging.

Fellows routinely participate in multidisciplinary conferences, morbidity and mortality conference, journal clubs, resident and medical student education and complete a quality improvement project.

Opportunities for fellows’ involvement in research and scholarly activities are available.

Body Breast Pathway

Overview

Selected candidates have the option to do a Body Breast pathway during this one-year Body Imaging fellowship. The goal of this pathway is to fully prepare the fellows to be the lead interpreting physician in any body or breast imaging facility, without additional training.

Training

Rotations are 4 weeks long.

A minimum of 6 months' training in Breast Imaging will be provided, as recommended by Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and American college of Radiology (ACR). The fellow will interpret many more examinations and perform more procedures than residents.

The remainder of the 6 months will be spent in the Body section with rotations based on modalities (MR, CT, and US).

One month of electives are available

Collaborative experiences

Experience interacting with members of the multidisciplinary team involved in patient care is crucial to understanding disease management. Presentation at Breast and GI multidisciplinary conferences and attendance at the liver conference will be required. These multidisciplinary conferences include collaboration with radiation oncology, oncologic surgery, hematology-oncology, hepatology, transplant surgery, plastic surgery, breast surgery, interventional radiology, and pathology services.

Participation in thoracic, lung screening and GU conferences will be on a case-by-case basis.

Requirements

Teaching and research involvement and licensure requirements are the same as for the classic Body Imaging pathway.