Your first year at Henry Ford Hospital is the clinical year, and is integrated into the residency. The year is broken down as follows:
Radiology:
You will have three rotations in Radiology:
Chest Radiography
Bone Radiography
Neuro CT
5 months of inpatient Internal Medicine:
You will be rotating through five of the following:
General Medicine
Pulmonary
Nephrology
Cardiology
Hematology/Oncology
Infectious Diseases
In general, there is overnight call every fourth night on the General Medicine months. Night float works on the subspecialty floors, and overnight call is only taken on the weekends.
Emergency Medicine:
One month of emergency medicine, which usually consists of 16-18 shifts, depending on the length of the month.
Elective Months:
Each pre-radiology resident rotates for one month in the ortho clinic, and two months on medicine electives such as pulmonary and neurology consults.
HO II, Radiology Full Time!
Your second year at Henry Ford is your first full time year of Radiology. The year is designed to prepare you to take ER call. You will rotate through all of the core rotations:
Chest radiography (second rotation)
Body CT
Neuro CT (second rotation)
GI/GU
Ultrasound
Nuclear Medicine
Pediatric Radiology
Musculoskeletal Radiology (second rotation)
Mammography
Your second time through Body CT, you will join the cross-sectional interventional team. You will rotate, along with the other residents on interventional days, where you will perform CT and Ultrasound guided biopsies, abscess drainages, thoracentesis, etc.
In March, first year Radiology residents take the ER oral examination. You will be tested in oral boards style, one on one with a member of the staff of the divisions of Thoracic, Body, Neuro, Nuclear, Pediatric and Musculoskeletal divisions of the department to make sure you possess the basic knowledge to take call in the Emergency Room.
HO III, Second year of Radiology:
Second year of Radiology residency you will start working in Interventional Radiology, Neurointerventional Radiology, and Myelography. You will also start working with advanced imaging such as Body MRI and Musculoskeletal MRI.
Many residents also choose to submit posters to national meetings during their third year. This fulfills the residency's research requirement. Plus, if you are the first author on the poster, the department will give you a stipend to travel to the meeting.
HO IV:
A lot of time is spent away from Henry Ford Hospital during your third year:
You also will complete additional interventional Radiology months and MRI rotations. Many people attend the national RSNA meeting in Chicago their third year.
At the end of the third year, some people from your class will decide to run for chief resident. Two chiefs are elected each year, and share administrative responsibilities equally. Chiefs are elected by the residents only.
At the end of the third year you will take the first ABR board examination which covers basic radiology content, and physics. There are several full time physicists on staff in the department that have a fully integrated physics curriculum that will be delivered throughout the first three years of residency in preparation to take this exam.
HO V, The Final year!
In view of the new ABR exam schedule, the department is currently re-organizing the curriculum to be in line with the national consensus to provide a mini-fellowship experience fourth year residents. The volume of exams performed in our department as well as our large group of fellowship trained radiologists on staff make our department uniquely equipped to provide these opportunities to radiology residents.
Daily Educational Activities:
From 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - You are excused for a daily conference, which is a case-based in a "hot-seat" format.
Lunch from 12:30 - 1 p.m. (protected time).
On every Tuesday and Thursday (except during the summer) there are 4 - 5 p.m. departmental didactic lectures.
Harris and Harris lectures on Monday afternoons from 4 - 5 p.m. until the ER exam for the 1st years (usually presented by the more senior residents).
Additional departmental conferences and tumor boards will vary depending on your interests and which rotation you are currently on. A resident favorite is the Thursday morning abdominal imaging conference.
