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The Neuroradiology Fellowship Program at UMass Chan Medical School provides trainees with an in depth one-year comprehensive neuroimaging training experience and offers exposure to all aspects of neuroradiology practice. The goals of fellowship are to offer fellows high-quality experiences in the areas of education, patient care, professionalism and research.

UMass Memorial Medical Center is a 781-bed tertiary care hospital and the clinical partner of UMass Chan Medical School. UMass Memorial is Worcester County’s only Level I Trauma Center, comprehensive stroke center and the referral center for central New England. The Department of Radiology at UMass Memorial performs over 1 million studies per year, across five hospitals and an outpatient imaging center. Current faculty in the department include 65+ fellowship trained Radiologists. The department trains 5 Residents per year (20 total). The Division of Neuroradiology comprises of 10 Neuroradiologists and interprets approximately 65,000 neuroimaging studies yearly. The Neuroradiology Faculty.

The department has an enterprise wide PACS system (AGFA), as well as EPIC EMR. The hospital campuses and outpatient imaging center have 8 MRIs (including a GE Pioneer 3T system), 9 CTs, including a Siemens dual source “flash” and two Siemens 128 Definition Edge CTs and two state-of-the art neurointerventional Philips biplane machines.

Requirements:

By the time they begin their fellowship at UMass Chan Medical School, applicants must have completed an ACGME-accredited radiology residency program, an AOA-approved residency program, a program with ACGME International (ACGME-I) Advanced Specialty Accreditation, or a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)-accredited or College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)-accredited residency program located in Canada. An exceptionally qualified international graduate who is trained in a non-ACGME radiology residency program is also considered for the fellowship.  Acceptance is contingent on obtaining Massachusetts medical license by the start date of the Fellowship.

Applicants should also review UMass Chan Medical School GME eligibility requirements found on the GME website - Eligibility (umassmed.edu)