About Winthrop-University Hospital

Founded in 1896 by a group of local physicians and concerned citizens, Long Island's first voluntary hospital is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center and Level 1 Trauma Center which offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. Winthrop-University Hospital is a major regional healthcare resource with a deep commitment to medical education and research, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services.

It is the mission of Winthrop-University Hospital to provide high quality, culturally competent, and comprehensive health care services in a teaching and research environment which improve the health and well-being of the residents of Nassau County and contiguous county areas... always with a commitment to "Care without compromise."

Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program

Program At-A-Glance

* State-of-the-art equipment
- New resident conference room
- wo 16-slice multidetector CT scanners, two 64-slice multidetector scanners (January 2006)
- Filmless outpatient center with short bore1.5T MRI
- Two biplane digital angiography suites
- 1.5T GE Signa MR with latest platform upgrade
- Computed radiography
- Integrated Picture Archiving System/Voice Recognition/RIS
- State-of-the-art sonography
- Breast imaging suite
- PET scanner
- New nuclear medicine cameras
- New fluoroscopy suites (inpatient and outpatient)
* Approaching 200,000 exams/year with broad mix of cases
* Very active interventional/neurointerventional/musculoskeletal service covering all types of procedures
* Cover only one hospital
* 100% board certification for program graduates
* 80% first time board pass rate (ranked top 1/3 of the U.S. programs)

Curriculum & Rotation Schedule

Our well-structured curriculum with constant resident supervision and feedback, includes:

* Four residents per year
* Educational program
* 13 four-week rotations/year
* Organ system rotations - GI/GU, Neuro, Interventional, Chest, Bone/ER
* Pediatric radiology, body CT/US/MR, nuclear and mammography, musculoskeletal/ambulatory radiology
* 4-5 months each subspecialty
* Faculty evaluations each rotation; fellowship-trained subspecialty faculty
* Paid board review course for each resident
* Research mentors with multiple clinical research projects (see publication
* list)
* Unlimited conference time for resident scholarly activity
* No fellows to dilute resident clinical experience
* Busy diverse interventional service
* Junior/senior call system
* Buddy call first six months with senior resident backup for first 1-1/2 years on call
* Day off post call
* 24-hour attending backup

Conferences

We offer an excellent conference schedule:

* Two resident in-department teaching conferences each day
* 2-4 specialty conferences each month
* Monthly journal club
* Weekly Rad/Path conferences
* Physics review course
* Department library/teaching file, including up-to-date ACR resources
* Monthly Grand Rounds/Visiting Professor
* Participation in annual radiology research symposium
* Inter-departmental conferences
* Core competencies lectures
* Board review sessions, including spring in-house mock boards and visiting examiners (radiology specific and general)

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