Diagnostic Radiology Residency
Mission & Vision
Our mission is to provide the highest quality training in diagnostic radiology for the physician of today, and tomorrow, and to achieve excellence in patient care, research, education and community service.
We aim to make this happen by continuously making technological improvements in the care of patients through high-value imaging research, and by improving the quality of medical care and patient experience through innovative, quality initiatives and promotion of a customer service mentality.
Mission & Vision
Our mission is to provide the highest quality training in diagnostic radiology for the physician of today, and tomorrow, and to achieve excellence in patient care, research, education and community service.
We aim to make this happen by continuously making technological improvements in the care of patients through high-value imaging research, and by improving the quality of medical care and patient experience through innovative, quality initiatives and promotion of a customer service mentality.
Program Director’s Welcome
We are an academic residency program as part of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System. We not only serve patients from Miami-Dade County but from all over the world, with a particularly large catchment area from the Caribbean and Central and South America. The Miami Transplant Institute, a joint program between the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital, also serves transplant patients from all over the world and gives our housestaff a broad experience in transplant pathology.
Program Director’s Welcome
We are an academic residency program as part of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System. We not only serve patients from Miami-Dade County but from all over the world, with a particularly large catchment area from the Caribbean and Central and South America. The Miami Transplant Institute, a joint program between the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital, also serves transplant patients from all over the world and gives our housestaff a broad experience in transplant pathology.
Residents get to experience different practice models, see a variety of patients and experience a large breadth of pathology with training at various rotation sites, including Jackson Memorial Hospital, a tertiary, not-for-profit hospital with more than 1,500 licensed beds, adjoined to Holtz Children’s Hospital and home to Ryder Trauma Center, the leading adult and pediatric Level I trauma center in Miami-Dade County. Training also occurs throughout various University of Miami facilities, including UHealth Tower and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, as well as the Applebaum MRI Center and The Lennar Foundation Medical Center’s outpatient facilities. This broad experience prepares our residents for whatever future practices they join, be they academic, or private, anywhere in the U.S., or the world.
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System utilizes top quality informatics resources and imaging equipment. Jackson utilizes Cerner and UHealth uses Epic for their electronic medical records, which is largely advantageous to our trainees as they experience the two largest EMR systems in the country. Our picture archiving and communication system is Philips IntelliSpace, voice recognition is Nuance PowerScribe 360, and TeraRecon and Vital Images are available for image processing. Imaging equipment come from top-of-the-line manufacturers including Canon Medical Systems, GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthineers.
Residents are also able to take advantage of university resources, including the UM Calder Medical Library with thousands of e-books, journals and research resources, as well as an on-campus wellness center.
Our friendly and engaging faculty have academic appointments at the UM Miller School of Medicine and participate in various academic and research missions. Collectively, we pride ourselves on educating residents so that they are extremely well prepared for fellowship and practice. We are a high-volume center and emphasize a “learning by doing” approach. A daily didactic conference and sectional conferences are supplemented with our own homegrown instructional videos, some of which can be viewed on our Radiology YouTube site. We want all our housestaff to not only become world-class radiologists but to enjoy their time in residency. Radiology residency is not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is and I am here to support our residents through the process, and am proud of our graduates’ successes when they leave aptly prepared for a wonderful career.
-Gary H. Danton, MD, PhD
Description
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System utilizes top quality informatics resources and imaging equipment. Jackson utilizes Cerner and UHealth uses Epic for their electronic medical records, which is largely advantageous to our trainees as they experience the two largest EMR systems in the country. Our picture archiving and communication system is Philips IntelliSpace, voice recognition is Nuance PowerScribe 360, and TeraRecon and Vital Images are available for image processing. Imaging equipment come from top-of-the-line manufacturers including Canon Medical Systems, GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthineers.
Residents are also able to take advantage of university resources, including the UM Calder Medical Library with thousands of e-books, journals and research resources, as well as an on-campus wellness center.
Our friendly and engaging faculty have academic appointments at the UM Miller School of Medicine and participate in various academic and research missions. Collectively, we pride ourselves on educating residents so that they are extremely well prepared for fellowship and practice. We are a high-volume center and emphasize a “learning by doing” approach. A daily didactic conference and sectional conferences are supplemented with our own homegrown instructional videos, some of which can be viewed on our Radiology YouTube site. We want all our housestaff to not only become world-class radiologists but to enjoy their time in residency. Radiology residency is not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is and I am here to support our residents through the process, and am proud of our graduates’ successes when they leave aptly prepared for a wonderful career.
-Gary H. Danton, MD, PhD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Residents per Year?
9 to 11
Duration of Residency?
4 years
Program Curriculum
Year 1 (Internship)
PGY-1 is not included in this program but is required for matriculation. We encourage applicants to consider an internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital and we will help facilitate an interview with the Internal Medicine Program on the same date as the Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program interview. Arrangements with the General Surgery Program internship are more challenging, but we do our best to accommodate interviewees.
Please notify staff that you applied for the internship program when you are granted a radiology interview. Note that we do not take into account whether or not an applicant applied to a Jackson Memorial Hospital internship when considering interview or ranking for radiology. You should do so only out of your own interest.
Years 2 – 4
Program years two through four serves to instruct residents in the proper interpretation of radiology images and to provide a reasonable differential diagnosis taking into account each patient’s clinical history. During these three years, residents rotate through various sections. Because the number of rotations and blocks differ, there are some differences between the total weeks individual residents spend on various rotations. Blocks are typically four weeks and residents can expect to complete the following number of blocks:
AIRP: 1
Body/General Imaging: 5-6
Breast Imaging: 2
Cardiac Imaging: 1
Emergency/Trauma Imaging: 6
Interventional Radiology: 2-3
Neuroimaging: 3-4
Nuclear Imaging: 3
Musculoskeletal Imaging: 4
Pediatric Radiology: 2-3
Thoracic Imaging: 4
Year 5
Residents are permitted to request a six-month, mini-fellowship for which they are given a notation on their final certificate. If a resident does not wish to apply for a mini-fellowship they may request a combination of the rotations during that six-month period that they feel would be most helpful in their career. Residents complete one block of breast imaging and one block of nuclear imaging. The remainder of time is made up of two to three blocks of emergency room trauma and rotations through two of the other sections.
Call is considered the ER trauma rotation and includes two weeks of in-house ER work during each block. The remaining two weeks of each rotation is elective time and research.
Your Faculty
Shivank Bhatia, MD
Chair, Interventional Radiology
Thiago Braga, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Radiology
Rosa P. Castillo-Acosta, MD
Section Chief, Abdominal Radiology
Oncology Clinical Service Director, University of Miami
Paul Clifford, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Radiology
Gary H. Danton, MD, PhD
Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
Vice Chair, Education
Anthony Durso, MD
Associate Director, Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
Shabbir Ezuddin, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Radiology
Steve Falcone, MD, MBA
Director, Neuroradiology Fellowship Program
Interim Chair, Radiology
Professor, Radiology, Neurological Surgery and Ophthalmology
Mark Foley, MD
Director, Nuclear Medicine Residency and Fellowship Program
Joel Fishman, MD, PhD
Section Chief, Thoracic Radiology
Michaelis Georgiou, PhD
Associate Professor, Radiology
Director, Basic Science, Nuclear Medicine
Juan Infante, MD
Vice Chair, Informatics
Prasoon P. Mohan, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Interventional Radiology
Director, Interventional Radiology – Independent Residency Program and Interventional Radiology – Integrated Residency Program
Felipe Munera, MD
Medical Director, University of Miami
Vice Chair, Clinical Operations
Gaurav Saigal, MD
Section Chief, Neuroradiology
Section Chief, Pediatric Radiology
Vice Chair, Finance
Yoel Siegel, MD
Director, Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship
Ty Subhawong, MD
Section Chief, Musculoskeletal Radiology
Robert Quencer, MD
Professor, Radiology
Alumni Placements Include:
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Duke University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Henry Ford Hospital
Hospital for Special Surgery
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mayo Clinic
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
UCLA
University of California
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Various private practices
Alumni Placements Include:
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Duke University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Henry Ford Hospital
Hospital for Special Surgery
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mayo Clinic
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
UCLA
University of California
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Various private practices