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Program Description
Pennsylvania Hospital Radiology
Chair
J. Bruce Kneeland, MD
Program Director
Michael B. Love, MD
The Hospital
Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital, is a 515-bed acute care facility that provides a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic medical services and functions as a major teaching and clinical research institution. The hospital was founded in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond to care for "the sick-poor and insane of Philadelphia." For more than 250 years the hospital has been located at the same site - at 8th and Spruce Streets in the historic Society Hill district of Philadelphia. The hospital is now known for its general and specialty services, including:
- orthopaedics
- vascular medicine/surgery
- neurosurgery
- otorhinolaryngology (ENT)
- urology
- obstetrics program -- especially high-risk maternal and fetal services
- neonatology
- neurosciences
- behavioral health
Pennsylvania Hospital also has expanding programs for cancer, cardiac care/surgery, gamma knife radiosurgery, and bloodless medicine and surgery. The hospital has over 24,500 inpatient admissions and 201,000 outpatient visits each year, including over 5,200 births.
The Department
The Department of Radiology is a full-service department with a full complement of imaging services in all areas. Extensive renovations completed during 2007-2008 have given the department many new facilities and a beautiful modern appearance. We have the full array of radiographic and fluoroscopic equipment, all nuclear imaging capabilities, 2 multislice CT scanners, a PET/CT scanner, 2 interventional suites, 6 sonography and 3 MRI units. Our Women's Imaging Center provides digital mammography, breast ultrasound, DEXA scanning, stereotactic biopsies and breast MRI. We are fully computerized, and our PACS system will be upgraded during Fall/Winter of 2008-2009.
The Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program
The Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program is a four year program and provides all requirements for certification by the American Board of Radiology. The program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Our program is currently expanding, and each incoming group will consist of five residents as we build to a total resident census of 20. Prior to matriculation, each resident must have completed a year of clinical graduate medical education in a program acceptable to the American Board of Radiology.
Pennsylvania Hospital is historically related to the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. All faculty members in the Department of Radiology at Pennsylvania Hospital have academic appointments in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
The Department of Radiology at Pennsylvania Hospital and its residency operate independently with all administrative and operational management at Pennsylvania Hospital. Being a component of the University of Pennsylvania Health System does offer our department the ability to share some faculty and provide our residents with some core rotations, elective rotations, and research opportunities at our sister institution, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
We provide a comprehensive orientation program to optimally begin each entering resident's experience. Clinical rotations are provided in all areas of radiology under the supervision of fully subspecialized faculty with long-standing interest and experience in teaching. Residents learn pediatric radiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Residents attend the Radiologic Pathology course at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC, and are currently supported for tuition and lodging. Two conferences are held daily in the Radiology Conference Room and cover all areas of diagnostic radiology by following a comprehensive curriculum. Full physics instruction is provided. We have no fellows in the department, as our objective is to concentrate exclusively on the education and welfare of our residents.
Residents are encouraged to participate in research projects and scholarly activities. Financial support is provided to permit residents to present their research at national radiological meetings. Residents are also supported to attend one national meeting or course during the residency, typically in the last year.
Residents share on-call responsibilities in an equitable manner. Junior residents spend time with senior residents to gain needed experience before assuming full call responsibility. The call resident always has full back-up by attending staff for image interpretation and procedure supervision.
The Society Hill district of Philadelphia is a beautiful and safe residential area. Residents can readily afford near-by housing, and many choose to live within walking distance, avoiding a commute (especially beneficial when one is tired post-call) and providing them the opportunity to conveniently partake in the historical, cultural and vibrant life of our city. Many of our staff also live near the hospital. Alternatively, residents may choose to live elsewhere in the city or its surrounding suburbs.
Applicants are selected on the basis of academic and personal qualifications without regard to race, sex, age, marital status, religion, sexual orientation or national origin. All applications to our program must be handled through ERAS - The Electronic Residency Application Service. Applications to our program are accepted each year from mid-summer though November 6. A competed application consists of an application form, personal statement, photograph, Dean’s letter, transcript, 3 other letters of recommendation, USMLE (or equivalent) Part 1 and Part 2 (if available) scores.
We could go on-and-on and yet fail to convey all the advantages of training at our institution. We hope that we have answered many of your initial questions and encourage you to contact us if we have not. We urge you to consider joining our program and look forward to receiving your application.
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