Neuroradiology Fellowship

The program offers one year of GME in neuroradiology.  The fellowship is ACGME-accredited and leads to a Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in neuroradiology. The fellow has 4.5 clinical and 0.5 academic days per week.  In addition, each fellow is awarded one week of block academic time during the second, third and fourth quarters of the year for a total of three weeks of protected, block academic time.  The fellows have been very productive in their use of academic time resulting in journal publications, book chapters, and presentations at national meetings.  If a presentation is accepted at a national meeting, departmental funding is often available. 

Neuroradiology fellows are based at Banner - University Medical Center - Tucson and predominantly read CTs and MRs of the brain, face, neck and spine.  CTs include CT perfusion, CT angiography, and three-dimensional CT imaging.  MR includes a wide range of advanced imaging protocols.  These include MR perfusion using DSE and DCE techniques, MR angiography, MR spectroscopy, diffusion tensor imaging, and functional imaging.  All neuroradiologic imaging including both adult and pediatric patients is performed by the neuroradiology section.  There are multiple spinal procedures per week divided among the residents and the fellows.  The spinal procedures include biopsies, lumbar punctures, myelograms, sacroiliac joint injections and epidural injections.  The fellows participate in diagnostic neuroangiography and endovascular neurosurgery procedures.

The program includes a series of lectures offered exclusively to the fellows two to three times monthly.  There is also a fellows’ journal club. The fellows participate in a wide variety of interdisciplinary conferences and tumor boards.  These include neuro-oncology tumor board, ENT tumor board, pediatric tumor board, and stroke conference.  Medical Imaging Grand Rounds and Neuroscience Grand Rounds add to the educational experience. 

The Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL) of the University of Arizona supports the students, faculty, researchers and clinicians in the College of Medicine and other colleges.  AHSL enables electronic access to vast stores of biomedical literature (around 10,000 serials) and participates as instructors in the curriculum of the colleges, works with researchers and clinicians on projects to improve access to essential information, and provides comfortable space for small group collaborations and quiet studying in a collegial atmosphere.  Evidence-based medicine tools include EBM Search (a locally developed federated search), Cochrane, ACP Pier, BMJ Clinical Evidence, and Clinical Practice Guidelines.  StatRef is a collection of over 90 electronic textbooks. Countless full-text journals are also accessible through the campus library catalog 24 hours a day.

Learn more about research opportunities in the Department of Medical Imaging.