
The Residency Program in Diagnostic
Radiology is a fully accredited 4-year program leading to specialty
certification by the American Board of Radiology. Established in
1991, it is one of 20 physician training programs sponsored by Madigan
Army Medical Center, a 243-bed hospital facility and multi-specialty,
outpatient mall at Fort Lewis, Washington. The program is affiliated
with Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle,
Washington, and provides a comprehensive clinical experience in all
imaging modalities and radiology subspecialties. the didactic
curriculum includes teaching conferences at MAMC and at the University of
Washington Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program. Participation in
clinical investigations and other scholarly activity is a requirement for
graduation. Ninety-eight percent of the program's graduates have
achieved board certification and have gone on to serve successfully as
general radiologists and fellowship-trained sub specialists in U.S. Army
MEDDAC's, MEDCEN's, and private practice.
There are 18 residents-in-training for SY
2005-2006. The program admits four new residents to PGY-2 training
each year; three are typically PGY-1 transitional interns pre-designated
to continue directly into residency.
The Department of Radiology performs more
than 170,000 examinations annually, serving a diverse patient population
in excess of 400,000 federal beneficiaries. Interpretation and
review of all modalities except mammography is performed using the GE
Centricity Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) on state of
the art digital workstations. The
department's imaging technologies are:
9 Radiographic Rooms; 2 are Direct Radiographic Systems (DR)
4 Computed Radiography Readers
3 Mammo Units plus Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) System; 1 Mammo US unit and Stereotactic Biopsy System
2 Digital Fluoroscopy Systems
2 Multi-Slice CT, 1-4, 1-16
2 Interventional Suites/1 Biplane
2 1.5 Tesla MRI
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5 US Systems
6 Nuclear Medicine Cameras - 5 Dual Head Cameras plus 1 Single Head
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