This is a common source of confusion.

If you applied to both categorical and advanced tracks, you can rank them both. If you have only applied to one track, you can still apply to the other. If you only applied to one track, we can only rank you for that track; we cannot rank you for the other one.

Your interview with us today applies to both the categorical and the advanced track positions.

You do not need to rank the internal medicine program. If you match with us for a categorical track position, then you automatically have an intern year spot with our Internal Medicine program.

Those who match with our radiology residency Categorical Track will have two months of radiology elective time while in the Internal Medicine preliminary year.

NRMP program numbers:

Radiology-Diagnostic Advanced Track: 1706420A0

Radiology-Diagnostic Categorical Track: 1706420C0

See next FAQ for new Surgery Preliminary year option.

Top 5 Reasons to Choose Our Residency Program

1. You’ll see it all! Baylor University Medical Center is a high-volume quaternary care referral center, inclusive of a Level I trauma center, cancer hospital, transplant institute, comprehensive stroke center, and heart and vascular hospital.

2. Congenial and collaborative atmosphere between staff and residents. We are a medium size program with 7 residents in each class (total of 28), enabling you to get to know all of your classmates and faculty well while maintaining flexibility in call and vacation scheduling.

3. Unique hybrid program design blending one of the largest and most respected private radiology groups with a large academic medical center, preparing our residents for future careers in academics and private practice. Business of Radiology and practice management lectures are incorporated into didactic curriculum.

4. Subspecialized clinical training from fellowship-trained radiologists in every field, with an overall attending to resident ratio of 2:1. This ensures that you get plenty of 1-on-1 time with attendings. Residents are integral to the function of the department and resident autonomy is encouraged, so you will feel like you are truly contributing to patient care. Residents gain great experience during their night shifts where they create full dictations without attending coverage.

5. Location, location, location. Baylor University Medical Center is located in the heart of Dallas, TX, the ninth most populous city in the US. All of our rotations are located on the main campus with the exception of the three months of dedicated pediatric radiology at the nearby Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. There are ample housing opportunities for individuals and families, with plenty of things to do and see in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

To provide exposure to real life experience in a self-run radiology practice and in the full breadth of radiological care found in a large, inner-city quaternary care hospital, so that graduates are models of self-care, global engagement, and interprofessional collaboration improving safety and quality for all patients they serve.

Hands-on Clinical

1. Maintain a high faculty to resident ratio to provide hands-on and one-on-one instruction

2. Foster collaboration and interaction with specialist across the hospital system

3. Provide learning experiences in the full-spectrum of radiology care including inpatient, outpatient, emergent, disadvantaged, and specialty care patients

Supportive

4. Maintain a robust wellness program that emphasizes individual needs, promotes work-life balance, and mentors residents on maintaining life-long well-being

5. Provide opportunities for all residents to identify and investigate barriers to safe, quality patient care and design their own interdisciplinary interventions

Beyond Radiology

6. Provide a robust educational program on the business of radiology, healthcare delivery, professionalism, leadership, global medicine, and charity care

7. Offer opportunities for resident charity and international learning experiences

A board eligible status is achieved at graduation from residency if the resident passed the ABR Core Exam which is taken during residency approximately 36 months after completion of the intern year.

Additional information is available at www.theabr.org concerning:

• Timing

• Cost

• Alternate pathways to subspecialty certification including:

1. Interventional Radiology/Diagnostic Radiology (IR/DR)

2. Nuclear Radiology 16-month Pathway to Dual Certification in DR and Nuclear Radiology

The ABR Certifying Exam can be taken as early as 15 months post-graduation from residency. The period during which the ABR grants board‐eligible status to a candidate for certification extends from the completion of training to December 31 of the sixth full calendar year after completion of training.