Curriculum

Our residents spend approximately 60- to 70% of their time at UC Irvine Medical Center and 30- to 40% of their time at VA Long Beach Medical Center.

Pediatric months are spent at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Approximate tallies of rotations are provided below.

During the first six months of the PGY-2 year, residents rotate through general diagnostic divisions with no call of any kind. Starting from January of PGY-2 year, residents begin taking home IR and VA call. As per ACGME guidelines, in-house ER rotations will begin in July of PGY-3 year. IR, fluoroscopy, musculoskeletal and ultrasound rotations provide many opportunities for hands-on learning of imaging guided procedures.

Advanced rotations

During advanced imaging rotations, senior residents learn state-of-the-art modalities, which include coronary CT angiography and CT-intravenous pyelography (CT-IVP), among others. Program faculty and a network of volunteer private practice radiologists provide extensive senior reviews to residents prior to oral board examination.

Our program provides daily conferences, which consist of didactic sessions and “hot seat” reviews.

Conference sessions

At UC Irvine, noon and 4 p.m. teaching sessions are held on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. A noon teaching session is also held on Fridays.

At the VA Long Beach Medical Center, we have daily noon conferences on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Physics lectures are offered once or twice a week by several full-time physics teaching faculty to prepare junior residents for ABR physics examination.

At CHOC, Pediatric didactic lectures are held at CHOC one Wednesday every month.

Apart from residents on ER, everyone attends Wednesday afternoon didactic sessions at UC Irvine Medical Center.

PGY4 residents attend AIRP course in Silver Springs, MD.