Diagnostic Radiology
The Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). There are 10 resident positions per year for the four-year training program. Intern year training must be completed prior to the start of the Diagnostic Radiology Residency.
Four-year Diagnostic Radiology residents are encouraged to participate in Specialty Tracks in research, quality, education, or informatics.
There is also a dedicated 5-year Clinician-Scientist track within the Diagnostic Radiology Residency that includes 1 year of research prior to the first year of radiology residency.
Our Mission
The mission of the Diagnostic Radiology Residency program is to provide outstanding educational opportunities to residents through innovative teaching, clinical training, and exposure to research, quality, and leadership initiatives for the purpose of enabling our trainees to become outstanding providers of clinical radiology in independent practices and academic medicine. Our trainees and graduates serve diverse populations, from small community practices to large metropolitan academic centers. Our mission aligns with UT Southwestern's goal of improving health care in our community, state, nation and world by providing safe, high-quality, and innovative care, both now and into the future.
Program Aims
- Develop foundational skills for excellence in clinical practice through a comprehensive curriculum led by world-class faculty in all sub-specialties of Radiology.
- Provide clinical training experiences in diverse healthcare settings, including general community medicine, underserved and high-complexity tertiary care populations in nationally recognized institutions.
- Educate providers of outstanding care who will enter diverse clinical practice settings, such as academic medicine and private practice.
- Build communication skills for the 21st century, enabling graduates to deliver complex medical information to patients and providers with clarity, accuracy, timeliness, and compassion.
- Mentor the next generation of leaders in research, quality, education, and informatics through faculty-led specialty tracks.
- Foster the development of leadership practice skills through progressive autonomy.
- Instill core values of intellectual vibrancy, inspiration, innovation, iteration, integrity and impact which are the foundational principles of the Radiology department.
Program Highlights
- The clinical teaching program is based at Parkland Hospital, where residents receive approximately two-thirds of their training. Residents also rotate at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital and Children’s Health℠ Children’s Medical Center.
- Extensive interaction between staff and residents (more than 150 clinical faculty members, 26 Ph.D. research faculty, and 11 medical physicists are dedicated to the education of future radiologists)
- Participation in daily faculty-led conferences, as well as experience in hands-on learning at PACS workstations and direct patient interactions
- Participation in multidisciplinary conferences with faculty and other clinical services
- Exposure to and participation in an array of Radiology research initiatives, including presentations of individual projects during Research Day
Training
A comprehensive learning experience:
- Rotation schedules are structured on a four-week block basis, providing 13 rotations per year and a significant exposure to the core radiological subspecialties. The Residency rotation curriculum is structured to provide each resident a solid foundation in all of the subspecialties American Board of Radiology Core Exam at the end of the third year.
- The section-based curriculum includes an education in radiologic physics.
- The first clinical year is devoted primarily to rotating through the basic services of thoracic, musculoskeletal, body imaging, neuroimaging, and emergency radiology.
- Subsequent second and third years include further training in these and other fields, along with a structured rotation schedule. Services include nuclear medicine, PET and PET-CT, magnetic resonance imaging, breast imaging, interventional radiology, and pediatric radiology.
- The fourth year allows residents to choose a variety of subspecialty electives including mini fellowship blocks in order to enhance their preparation for a future career.
The Department of Radiology sponsors supplemental programs such as the National Imaging Informatics Course and participation in the American College of Radiology's Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI).
Clinical Rotations
Resources
Training in radiologic pathology takes place in the third year of residency training through a four-week virtual elective course given by the ACR Institute for Radiologic Pathology.
Online teaching files are available through UT Southwestern and Parkland Health & Hospital System. Residents are also provided access to eAnatomy, RADPrimer, STATdx, and CaseStacks.
The American College of Radiology In-Training Examination, a practice exam, is given each year to residents in the first through third years of training. Intensive review sessions are held for residents taking the American Board of Radiology Core Exam.
RADExam from the American College of Radiology is also utilized at the end of each rotation to help residents gauge their learning in each subspecialty discipline.
Call Duty
Independent call provided by residents is one of the strengths of our program and residents remain independent overnight at all of our clinical sites. Residents begin taking night call shifts after 12 months of radiologic training. The majority of call is distributed through a night-float system. This part of their education continues for the remainder of their residency. There is a strong faculty and fellow back-up system for supervision of all resident call duties.
- Two residents at Parkland Hospital, with senior resident supervision
- One resident at Children’s Health℠
- One resident at Clements University Hospital, with senior resident supervision
Faculty
To learn more about the Radiology faculty, click here.
Facilities and Equipment
Facilities consist of:
- Five whole-body MRI units at UTSW
- One 7T
- Four 3T
- Six whole-body MRI units at Children’s Health℠
- Two 3T
- Four 1.5T
- Positron Emission Tomography Mammography
- 16.5 MeV Cyclotron
- High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
- Spectral CT
- Small animal MR, SPECT, PET, and CT
Conferences
Radiology teaching conferences are held daily throughout the year and include both didactic lectures and case-based presentations in a predominately section-based format. First year Radiology residents also benefit from a dedicated introductory course provided by fourth-year residents and longitudinal faculty-led conference series dedicated to teaching the core principles of radiology.
Radiology Grand Rounds are held monthly with prestigious visiting and local professors, offering the opportunity to meet and learn from leading national authorities on a wide variety of topics.
Informative multidisciplinary clinical conferences in combination with medicine, surgery, pathology, and the various clinical subspecialties are available.
The Department's Medical Physics faculty provides formal education in the basic sciences of radiation biology and radiological physics in preparation for the physics portion of the American Board of Radiology examination.
Research Opportunities
Intellectual vibrancy and technological innovation are core values of the Department, which are developed through research and collaborative efforts of the clinical and research faculty.
Residents are required to engage in scholarly activity as part of their training in an ACGME-accredited program. Results must be published or presented at institutional, local, regional, or national meetings. Projects may include:
- Laboratory research
- Clinical research
- Analysis of disease processes, imaging techniques, or practice management issue
The residency sponsors a Resident Scholars Track which is open to first through fourth-year residents by application. This program allows a select group of residents the opportunity to be mentored in the research process, and guided through the successful conduct of research, publication, and grant writing with dedicated academic time for one year.
The residency also sponsors a Clinician Educator Resident Track (CERT), a Quality Improvement Resident Track (QIRT), and an Imaging Informatics and Business Intelligence Track (I2BIT) for residents who are interested in exploring these areas. For more information please visit Enrichment Opportunities.
For applicants who are interested in more dedicated time in order to obtain the training necessary to become an outstanding researcher, the residency also supports a five-year Clinician-Scientist Track.
Fellowship Placement
Nearly every resident pursues advanced training through prestigious fellowship programs following graduation, matching into their top training choices across the nation.
| Class of 2025 | |
|---|---|
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Body Imaging |
| University of California, San Francisco | Neuroradiology |
| UT Southwestern | Abdominal Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Body MRI |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging x 3 |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology x 4 |
| UT Southwestern | Pediatric Radiology |
| Class of 2024 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Neuroradiology |
| Northwestern University | Body Imaging |
| University of Pennsylvania | Interventional Radiology |
| UT Southwestern | Abdominal Imaging x 4 |
| UT Southwestern | Body MRI |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging x 2 |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology |
| Class of 2023 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Clinical Radiology of Oklahoma | Musculoskeletal Intervention |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital | Pediatric Radiology |
| Emory University | Breast Imaging |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Body Imaging |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering | Body MRI |
| University of Pennsylvania | Neuroradiology |
| UT Southwestern | Body MRI |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology |
| UT Southwestern | Pediatric Radiology |
| University of Wisconsin | Breast Imaging |
| Class of 2022 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| University of Alabama | Musculoskeletal Imaging |
| University of California San Francisco |
Neuroradiology |
| University of Michigan | Breast Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology |
| UT Southwestern | Abdominal Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging x 3 |
| Class of 2021 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Duke University | Neuroradiology |
| Emory University | Breast Imaging |
| Jefferson University | Neuroradiology |
| Stanford Cancer Imaging | Body MR |
| Texas Children's Hospital | Pediatric Radiology |
| University of Alabama | Abdominal Imaging |
| University of Iowa | PET Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Abdominal Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology x 2 |
| Class of 2020 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Barrow Neurological Institute |
Neuroradiology |
| Emory University | Breast Imaging |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Cardiovascular Imaging |
| Stanford University | Vascular & Interventional |
| UCSF | Neuroradiology |
| University of Michigan | MSK |
| UT Southwestern | MSK |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology x 2 |
| UT Southwestern | Pediatric Radiology |
| Class of 2019 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Baylor Medical Center | Breast Imaging |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Vascular & Interventional |
| Joint Program in Nuclear Med | Nuclear Medicine |
| Stanford University | Vascular & Interventional |
| UT Southwestern | MSK x 2 |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology |
| UT Southwestern | Pediatric Radiology |
| UT Southwestern | Vascular & Interventional x 2 |
| University of Virginia | Vascular & Interventional |
| Class of 2018 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Massachusetts General | Vascular & Interventional |
| Stanford University | Abdominal Imaging |
| Stanford University | Vascular & Interventional |
| UT Southwestern | Abdominal Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging x 2 |
| UT Southwestern | MSK x 2 |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology x 3 |
| UT Southwestern | Vascular & Interventional x 2 |
| UT Southwestern | Women's Imaging |
| Class of 2017 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Northwestern | Body MR |
| Stanford University | Interventional |
| University of Michigan | Interventional |
| UT Southwestern | Abdominal Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Body MR |
| UT Southwestern | MSK x 3 |
| UT Southwestern | Neuroradiology x 3 |
| UT Southwestern | Vascular & Interventional |
| University of Washington | Neuroradiology |
| Class of 2016 | |
| PROGRAM | SUBSPECIALTY |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Breast Imaging |
| MD Anderson | Interventional |
| MD Anderson | Breast Imaging |
| Northwestern | Breast Imaging |
| Stanford University | Pediatric Radiology |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | Breast Imaging |
| UT Southwestern | MSK x 3 |
| UT Southwestern | Vascular & Interventional |
| University of South Carolina | Vascular & Interventional |
Salaries and Benefits
Hospital stipends are set annually and are competitive nationally with those of other teaching programs. The amount, shown in the chart below, depends on the year of residency training.
Low-cost hospitalization and dental insurance is available to contracted house staff, as well as a group life insurance plan.
Medical malpractice insurance is provided for Radiology house staff by the Department through the University of Texas System group plan.
Each resident receives 25 days of PTO annually. which can be rolled over from year to year. Six weeks of paid medical and parental leave are provided.
Free parking is available at all sites.
| Salary | |
|---|---|
| PGY 1 | $63,900.00 |
| PGY 2 | $66,355.00 |
| PGY 3 | $69,112.00 |
| PGY 4 | $72,486.00 |
| PGY 5 | $75,835.00 |
| PGY 6 | $79,086.00 |
| PGY 7 | $82,716.00 |
| PGY 8 | $86,866.00 |
Parkland Contract
Application Process
This year, we will be providing thirteen Diagnostic Radiology positions, and three Clinician-Scientist Track positions.
Radiology residency applications should be submitted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
It is strongly recommended that you complete your application by October 15. In addition to the ERAS application, applications must include:
- Brief personal statement
- Curriculum vitae
- Medical school transcript
- USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2 reports
- Dean's letter
- Three letters of recommendation from physicians who have knowledge of your clinical experience
For the 2024-2025 ERAS® cycle, our program will be collecting and reviewing data from applicants supplemental ERAS applications. Completion of the standard MyERAS application is a requirement; completion of the supplemental ERAS application is optional.
In its third year of use, the supplemental ERAS application is designed to help applicants share more information about themselves and assist our program in finding applicants that fit our program's setting and mission. There is no cost to applicants and participation is optional.
The supplemental ERAS application provides:
- geographic preferences (by division and by urban or rural setting;
- information about an applicant's most meaningful experiences and other impactful life events, if applicable; and
- program signals
Learn more about the AAMC supplemental ERAS application.
The Department acknowledges every application submitted. Following completion of the application, the Residency Selection Committee evaluates and selects candidates to interview. For this application cycle, interviews will be conducted from November 2024 to January 2025.
Applications are evaluated for both personal and professional qualities with the goal of a diverse program filled with qualified candidates.
All positions begin July 1 following successful completion of a preliminary year of training.
All positions are filled through the Match unless special circumstances apply. The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) program code for the four-year Diagnostic Radiology Program is 2835420A0, and the NRMP program code for the five-year Clinician-Scientist Track Program is 2835420A1.
Residency Interviews
Residency interviews are conducted on weekdays and include:
- Pre-interview virtual social hour with current residents
- 20-minute interviews with four faculty members and/or residents
- Virtual department tours
Optional in-person 2nd look events will be held after interviews are concluded in February 2025.
Passage of Medical Licensing Examinations Policy
International Medical Graduates
For questions regarding International Medical Graduates, please visit our Residency Programs page.