Welcome to the Radiology Residency program at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The Faculty and Staff focus on affording you the educational experiences and the opportunity to gain the expertise needed to practice radiology through hands-on clinical experiences. During your training you will have daily one-on-one interaction with nationally and internationally known faculty and opportunity to participate in both clinical procedures and ongoing research projects.

 What You Should Expect

Learning is a full-time endeavor. This will involve daily “apprenticeship” activities with the faculty, fellows, and senior residents, as well as designated time spent reading and studying. You should expect the faculty to teach you the fundamentals of each subspecialty area—this teaching may be formal didactic lectures, case presentations or teaching at the workstations. When you complete your training, you should expect to be an excellent radiologist, well prepared for fellowship and/or the practice of radiology.

 What the Faculty Expects

Reliability, enthusiasm, and a preparedness to learn radiology are required. We expect residents to be at work on time, dress professionally, treat patients, families and staff with respect, and be team players. .

Appearance

Remember, you are not sequestered in a dark reading room; you are interacting with patients and referring physicians. Attire should be appropriate: scrubs with lab coat, or dressy street clothes. 

Be Available

Carry your pager at all times, and answer pages promptly. If you become aware of a pager malfunction, have it corrected as quickly as possible.

Hours of Operation

We expect residents and fellows who wish to participate in cases to arrive prior to when procedures are scheduled. Later arrival may be acceptable for valid excuses when arranged in advance. In case of emergency, notify your attending at once.

There is no set cut-off time. Normally, a resident or fellow participating in a case is expected to stay until that case is completed. Full filming and dictation may be postponed until the following morning.

How to Learn

Your attitude toward learning is equally important – perhaps more so — than the skills you learn through practice.

Be Prepared – keep up with readings. Particularly, read before your case.

Ask Questions – Answers make far more sense when given in response to a meaningful question than when told to you in a book or lecture hall. Granted, many faculty members find excessive questions annoying. A thoughtful and sincere question, however, is appreciated and most teachers will respond in kind.

Take the Initiative – What you get out of your residency experience depends largely on what you put into it. Seek out things to do while you are in a section. Find time to ask faculty to explain and describe. Do your work and then look for more. People are active learners – they construct knowledge by connecting experience with prior learning. The more you ask questions, find answers, and rephrase what you find into your own words, the better you will learn.

Finally – Enjoy Yourself! – Immerse yourself in what you are doing. Show interest but be careful not to appear insincere.