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Long
Island College Hospital
GENERAL INFORMATION The Radiology Department is a unified Department under the leadership of Michael M. Abiri, M.D., also Chairman of the Radiology Department at the Beth Israel Medical Center and Deborah L. Reede, M.D., Associate Chairman at the Long Island College Hospital (LICH). The attending staff has been carefully selected for its ability to
teach and stimulate the inquisitive mind. Most attendings have an academic
appointment at the State University of New York, Health Science Center
at Brooklyn or New York University, or both. The diagnostic radiology residency program has a comprehensive curriculum with equal emphasis on formal teaching, informal teaching and practical experience, with considerable exposure to special projects, subspecialty training and research. The four-year training program, under the direction of Dr. Deborah
Reede, begins at the PGY II level (requiring a prior year of internship
training - PGY 1- in another clinical area), and consists of four years
of rotations through various subspecialties of Radiology. Residents rotate through all subspecialty areas of radiology generally
in four-week blocks each. The rotations include: The first four months of the first year consist of introduction and orientation in techniques and principles of diagnosis through didactic lectures and clinical practice. During that time, new residents are assigned to 4-week rotations through computed tomography (CT) neuroradiology, gastrointestinal radiology (GI), and chest radiology. The residents learn a variety of techniques during this time through observation. There is complete instructional review of all films dictated by the residents in every division of the department throughout the full course of the training program. Cardiac Radiology training is enhanced by a rotation at the Center for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Beth Israel Medical Center. Residents will spend one month at Beth Israel during their fourth year of training gaining an in-depth exposure to radiological interpretation and to the role of the radiologist and radiological imaging of the diagnosis and management of congenital and acquired heart disease. The training program has integrated time into the resident's rotation
schedule for the six-week course at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
(AFIP) in Washington, D.C. This is accomplished in the resident's third
year of training. During the entire four-year period, resident physicians are required to attend daily teaching conferences presided over by attending radiologists from our department as well as visiting professors in various diagnostic radiology subspecialties. In addition to these lectures, residents are expected to occasionally present topics in a formal lecture for the benefit of their peers and attending radiologists. There is also a monthly Journal Club with review of the literature on specified radiologic topics. Residents are expected to attend the monthly meeting of the New York Roentgen Society, as well as the monthly post-graduate subspecialty meetings hosted at other hospitals in New York City. The resident works directly with the attending physician(s) supervising the subspecialty rotation at all times throughout the day including, but not limited to, the performance of procedures, film review sessions, and rounds. Residents accompany the radiology attending to interdepartmental teaching conferences. Attendance at daily noon conference in the Department of Radiology is mandatory. These conferences are given either by LICH radiology attendings or by guest lecturers. Residents are encouraged to work with members of the Department's teaching
staff on research projects. Residents presenting papers at national
conferences are supported and sponsored by the Department. The Department
provides two PC's, each with Internet access. Introduction in Word and
PowerPoint is available. The department is converting its teaching files
to an electronic database. Residents will be required to achieve competency
in coding pathology and scanning, archiving and retrieving electronically
stored teaching files within the institutional database. The goal of the residency-training program is to train well-rounded, highly competent diagnostic radiologists who are equally prepared to practice general diagnostic radiology or to enter into a fellowship which may lead to academic and/or subspecialty radiology careers. Almost all residents from the program continue their training in fellowships around the country. The Diagnostic Radiology program at the Long Island College Hospital participates in the National Residency Matching Program with the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). All positions for 2002 and 2003 have been filled. For further information about our program, please direct your inquiries to: Deborah L. Reede, M.D.
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| For further information about the program, inquires can be directed to: gjorge@bethisraelny.org |