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Radiology Clerkship MDR 909

Department of Radiology

Overview

Radiology is a required 2 week clerkship available to third and fourth year medical students, and must be successfully completed prior to graduation. The course is offered once a month 12 times a year. It is a structured two week course mainly at Jackson Memorial Medical Center.  The aim of the course is to teach the student what every physician should know about diagnostic imaging and how to effectively use our varied radiographic techniques and imaging modalities to diagnose disease, regardless of their field of interest.

An Advanced Radiology elective is offered in 2-week blocks (B blocks only) to those students wanting to gain more in depth knowledge or who are interested in the field as a career choice. Multiple blocks may be taken. Please refer to Course MDR 910 for description.

Course Design

The course consists of daily required morning image interpretation sessions rotating through the subspecialties of Radiology as well as afternoon small group interactive sessions for case solving, based on the assigned on-line video tutorials. There will be an assigned instructor which will be an attending, fellow, or senior resident.  Attendance is mandatory and will be recorded. The students will be assessed for performance during these sessions. The students are also invited to attend other departmental and sectional conferences. A final exam will be given on the last day of the course.