Rochester General Health System
Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
Rochester General Hospital is a 528-bed tertiary care center affiliated with the University of Rochester and Cleveland Clinic. RGH has active medical and surgical services including the largest cardiothoracic service in the region.
In the previous academic year, 110 physicians in 18 different programs trained at Rochester General Hospital. By any benchmark, Rochester General Hospital is an institution firmly committed to the development of tomorrow's physicians.
About Rochester General Hospital Diagnostic Imaging
The Rochester General Diagnostic Imaging Department performs approximately 147,000 exams per year using state-of-the-art equipment. Currently, we have:
- Three helical CT scanners
- One 64 CT scanner
- Four 1.5T MRI scanners
- State-of-the-art ultrasound
- Digital fluoroscopy
- Digital mammography
- Digital angiography PET functional imaging
Resources for resident instruction include Rochester General Hospital's 10,000-case teaching file and the teaching file of the American College of Radiology. Our radiology library and the hospital's extensive Werner Health Sciences Library provide valuable resources through journal subscriptions, texts, CD-ROM, and Internet availability at all workstations. Access to the Hospital library is available via home computer 24-hours-a-day.
Our program uses a night float system for call.
The Success of Our Program
From 2000 through our 2009 graduating class, 31 residents will have completed our program. 19 of them have gone on to fellowship programs in the following areas:
Interventional Radiology
- Duke University
- Massachusetts General Hospital/Boston
- University of Rochester Medical Center
Neuroradiology
- Cleveland Clinic
- Duke University
- Johns Hopkins
- University of Miami
- University of Minnesota
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Rochester Medical Center
- University of Wisconsin
MRI / Body Imaging
- University of Rochester Medical Center
- University of Toronto
- University of Washington-Seattle
- Yale University
Our remaining graduates have chosen to enter directly into private practice.
