Vacation may be taken at any time (schedules permitting) EXCEPT:

1. During the week of the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) meeting. This meeting is held the week immediately following Thanksgiving.
2. During the Christmas or New Year season. One half of the residents will take 3 vacation days during Christmas week and the other half during the New Years’ week.
3. During ARRS (American Roentgen Ray Society) meeting (April or May).
4. During major subspecialty meetings as defined by the fellows’ individual fellowship director.
5. During the oral Radiology Board Examinations (Late May)

   Travel:
   The department will reimburse a maximum of $1,000 for attendance at educational conferences/seminars during the 12 months of the fellowship appointment. An additional $1,000 per year is given if a fellow presents a paper or exhibit at a meeting.

   Book Allowance:
   Fellows receive $200 per year for educational materials. This can be combined with travel money for any combination of all books, all travel, or a one time PDA purchase up to $500. Per federal tax regulations, 90% of the PDA purchase price will be reimbursed. 

   All book and journal orders may be made through Willi Gurka in the Riley Hospital Radiology Library (her office is in the Riley Hospital Radiology Library, Room 1053A, phone 274-1863). If purchased through other methods, the fellow will be reimbursed up to their remaining funds upon submission of the receipt. Unused education resource funds remaining at the end of a fellowship will be lost and cannot be rolled into cash. 

   There is also a library in the Radiology Department at each of the four hospitals on the IU campus. See the Radiology Library Policy.

   Parking:
   Trainees in accredited fellowships have their parking paid for by the GME office. Trainees who have lecturer appointments in nonaccredited fellowships have their parking paid by the radiologists' practice group. Parking while rotating to Wishard Memorial Hospital will be provided by the department.

   Residents or Fellows on rotation at Clarian’s Methodist Hospital should park in Parking Garage #1, located on the Northeast corner of 16^th and Senate Avenue. Your IUSOM ID badge should be shown to the parking attendant when leaving and you will not be charged for parking. For parking in Garage #1, residents have the option of visiting the Denison Parking office on the first floor of the garage, showing their IUSOM ID and putting a deposit of $15 on a garage card, which will allow them to get out a little quicker. The $15 deposit on the card is returned to the resident/fellow when the card is returned at the end of the program. If you park in any other garage on the Methodist campus, you will be expected to pay the customary parking charges. For more questions concerning parking at Methodist, contact Linda Chambers at 962-8250.

    

    

   Health & Dental Insurance (for nonaccredited fellowships):

   For fellows in non-accredited fellowships who have a lecturer appointment, health insurance benefits are provided the same as for other faculty and staff, with the fellow paying a low monthly premium and having the choice of an HMO or PPO plan for health and dental coverage.  

   Disability Insurance:
   Long-term disability insurance is provided to fellows at no cost through Paul Revere.

   Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance:
   Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance is provided to fellows at no cost through Safeco Life Insurance Company.

   Malpractice Insurance:
   For the fellows in accredited fellowships, each IU School of Medicine affiliated hospital provides malpractice insurance under indemnity for liability of the house staff while acting in the performance of his/her duties or in the course and scope of his/her assignment.  The radiologists' practice plan provides malpractice insurance for the fellows in non-accredited fellowships.

   Communications:
   Each house staff member is given an E-mail account through the University. Each fellow receives a pager when training begins.All hospitals on the IU campus as well as Methodist use a unified paging network, allowing house and medical staff to be reached in any of the hospitals in the central Indiana area.  Mailboxes for US and campus mail are located at University Hospital (except for pediatric fellows, who have mailboxes at Riley Hospital).

   Medical Society & Association Membership:
   As trainees, fellows qualify for free memberships to ARRS and RSNA. If the hard copy of the Radiology journal is desired, the Department of Radiology will pay for this subscription. The Department of Radiology will pay up to $200 of the fellow's professional dues for the 12-month appointment. Payment of personal subscriptions to professional journals (other than for Radiology, or those incidental to membership in a professional society) are not included in this benefit. 
   
   Stipend:
   The fellow's salary varies yearly. However, our salaries are nationally competitive. For the 2009-2010 academic year, the first-year fellows will receive a salary of $51,000 and the second-year fellows will receive $53,000.

   Clinical:
   The clinical training for individual fellowships is described in each of the fellowship program descriptions listed to the left.
   
   Teaching:
   The fellow is expected to teach in three ways. The first is in the interaction and teaching of fellows and medical students during the daily clinical responsibilities. Second, two or three times a year the fellow will present a one-hour review of teaching cases to the fellows. Third, the fellow may be requested to give two to three formal lectures to the fellows during the year.
   
   Research:
   The fellow is expected to complete a research project to be written and submitted to a major radiology or subspecialty journal. In addition, the fellow will present his/her research during a 15-minute presentation to an annual research conference presented by the Department of Radiology.
   
   Call:
   On-call responsibilities vary considerably from section to section. Basically, interventional, neuroradiology, nuclear medicine, and pediatrics cover just their subspecialties while mammography, chest, abdominal, and musculoskeletal rotate with the faculty in the general call schedule.

   Medical Staff Membership:
   Fellows eligible for medical staff membership (Those in nonaccredited fellowships, not on a visa) must also be appointed to the faculty of the School of Medicine.
   
   Licensure:
   Fellows in accredited fellowships are eligible for a medical training permit through the Indiana Medical Licensing Board at a cost of $100 for initial permit or $50 for yearly renewal.

   Fellows in non-accredited fellowships are appointed as lecturers with Indiana University, and become members of the medical staff. Membership to the medical staff requires that fellows have an unlimited license to practice medicine issued by the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, an Indiana Controlled Substance Registration and a Federal DEA Registration. The cost for the initial unlimited license is $250 and for initial DEA is $551. The Indiana State License fee will be paid by the Department of Radiology. The department will pay the full three-year Federal DEA fee for new fellows if that individual does not already have the registration. If the registration has been obtained for individual use prior to joining our program, the fee will be prorated and the individual can be reimbursed for one year of the fee.

   FEE COURTESY

   Fee courtesy is available for the fellows, spouses and dependent children. For information on IUSOM’s fee courtesy for housestaff, visit http://www.medicine.iu.edu/~resident/manual/benefits.html#tuition 

    

   Health  & Dental Insurance (for accredited fellowships):
   For fellows in accredited fellowships, health insurance is provided by the affiliated hospitals through the School of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Office. Fellows are not charged a monthly premium for health care coverage, but are responsible for any co-payments required by the plan at the time of service. The insurance plan covers the fellow, spouse, and children as applicable. Fellows have a choice of two health care plans: M-Plan Health Network and IU Health Plan. Fellows in accredited fellowships are offered a choice of two dental care plans: CompDent and Security Dental. CompDent emphasizes diagnostic and preventive services through a network of participating dental locations and includes no charge for routine dental care and other procedures at a reduced rate. Security Dental is a traditional plan the provides reimbursement for dental services from any licensed dentist and requires an annual deductible and an annual benefit maximum of $500 per person per plan year.