Radiation Oncology Residency


About the Radiation Oncology Residency Program

Welcome to the Department of Radiation Oncology Residency Program at Loyola University Medical Center. We appreciate your interest in our program. The department offers a fully accredited four-year residency program for eight residents. Our residency emphasizes multi-disciplinary cancer care, advanced radiotherapeutic technologies and procedures, didactic and clinical teaching, clinical/basic science research, and service to our patients and our discipline.

Our goal is to educate and train physicians to be optimally skilled in the practice of radiation and clinical oncology. We emphasize teaching and evaluating the six core competencies: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, communication, professionalism, and system-based practice. Ultimately we intend for our graduating physicians to be outstanding clinicians, potential researchers, and make significant future contributions in the radiation oncology field. Please feel free to contact us if we can be of further assistance.

Program Description

The Loyola/Hines Department of Radiation Oncology was established in July 1985 by Loyola University Chicago to provide radiotherapy for the Loyola University Medical Center and the Hines VA Hospital. This creation of a new, combined program was necessary to form a department large enough to support a training program and to develop the Radiation Oncology Department to its fullest potential.

The Loyola University Medical Center campus is a major tertiary care center for the Chicago metropolitan area as well as its near western suburbs. The campus houses Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine, the main hospital, the Loyola Outpatient Center and the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center on the east side along First Avenue and is adjacent to the Edward J. Hines Jr. VA Hospital, which is on the west side and accessible by Roosevelt Road at 5th Avenue.

The department of Radiation Oncology has clinic facilities at Loyola University Medical Center, a 567-bed university hospital, and Hines VA Hospital, a 500-bed hospital. We provide services to the entire VISN 12 Veteran Affairs Network specifically Jessie Brown VA (formally West Side VA Hospital and the Lake Side VA Hospital).

Loyola University Medical Center and Hines VA Hospital maintain a fully accredited four-year program in radiation oncology. Residents start radiation oncology training after completion of a transitional PGY-1 year or internship in internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery or surgical specialties, obstetrics & gynecology, or family medicine. This PGY-1 year must include at least nine months of direct patient care in medical and/or surgical specialties other than radiation oncology.

William Small Jr., MD, FACR, FASTRO

William Small Jr., MD, FACR, FASTRO 
Professor 
Department Chair

Alec M. Block, MD

Alec M. Block, MD 
Associate Professor 
Residency Program Director

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