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GENERAL INFORMATION St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center is the largest voluntary teaching hospital in New York State, being comprised of two sites: St. Luke's Hospital at 114th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, and Roosevelt Hospital at Tenth Avenue and 59th Street. This provides diversity in patient population, illnesses and social problems. (St. Luke's adjacent to Harlem; Roosevelt in Midtown Manhattan). Together, the two hospitals provide much of the medical care for the area of Manhattan extending from 34th to 134th Street, from Central Park West to the Hudson River. The Radiology Department is a unified Department under the leadership of Michael M. Abiri, M.D., who is also Chairman of Radiology for all the Continuum Hospitals. Jeanne W. Baer, M.D., is Associate Chairman at the St. Luke's site, and Nolan Kagetsu, M.D., Associate Chairman at the Roosevelt Hospital site. Although there are specialty radiologists at each site, integration is accomplished through staff meetings, grand rounds, resident teaching, and cross-coverage. The attending staff has been carefully selected for its ability to teach
and stimulate the inquisitive mind. All attendings have an academic appointment
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University or Albert
Einstein College of Medicine. Unique specialty interests have brought
national and sometimes international recognition to several members of
the staff; in particular, Nuclear Cardiology, Body Imaging, Neuroradiology,
and Interventional Radiology.
The four-year training program is under the direction of Dr. Nolan Kagetsu, (Neuroradiology) and Dr. Munir Ghesani (Nuclear Medicine). It begins at the PGY II level (requiring a prior year of clinical training) and consists of thirteen 4-week rotations per year, covering all aspects of diagnostic radiology. Residents spend approximately half of their rotations at the Roosevelt site and half at the St. Luke's site. Resident supervision occurs on a one to one resident-attending relationship
for every rotation. An attending is on duty until 11pm from Monday to
Friday. Attending consultation is available via PACS from Saturday evening
(12am to 7am) to Friday morning throughout the year. OUTSIDE ROTATIONS/ELECTIVES
Experience in Pediatric Radiology is obtained by spending one month in their junior year and one month in their senior year at Babies Hospital (Columbia University). Cardiac Imaging is supplemented with a one-month rotation in the senior year at Beth Israel Medical Center. Residents can use elective time to work with Dr. Alejandro Berenstein's internationally known neurointerventional radiology team at the Roosevelt site.
Some residents have arranged elective time to work on research projects Fourth year medical student electives can be arranged through Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, and interventional radiology. Students attend conferences, participate in reviews, and can arrange to be on-call with a radiology resident. Description of electives: http://ps.cpmc.columbia.edu/electives/radiology1.html Instructions for visiting students: http://ps.cpmc.columbia.edu/students/visiting.html For more information, please contact: Continuous upgrades of fluoroscopic, interventional, MR, CT, and nuclear imaging equipment have taken place such that patient care and teaching are at the forefront of progress. Access to PET/CT scanning became available in 2005. Areas of growth reflect the intstitutional commitment to support the following programs:
1. Stroke center; multiple sclerosis center. Volume: 222,000 radiology reports were generated in 2006. This includes:
81,000 from the Emergency Department. Residents rotate through all subspecialty areas of radiology generally in four-week blocks each. The rotations include: All work in these areas is reviewed with an attending on a daily basis. In neuroradiology, vascular special procedures and interventional radiology, the clinical evaluation of the patient and the performance of the procedure are under the direct guidance of the attending radiologist. Teaching is organized on a formal and informal basis. In addition to the academic courses in radiologic physics, radiobiology and nuclear medicine, formal clinical teaching includes daily didactic general radiology conferences and three weekly conferences reviewing current cases. Most days there are two radiology conferences and everyday there is at least one. Our teaching program begins with a one month intensive introductory course. Numerous conferences in other medical disciplines are covered by both a radiology attending and a resident. Residents are gradually given responsibility for presentation of radiology findings at these clinical conferences in order to develop consultative skills. Practical work with responsibility is an integral part of our concept of resident training. Increasing responsibility for reading films occurs during the four-year training program. At all times, attending diagnostic radiologists are available for individual consultations as well as more formal film review. The resident trainee also learns to assume administrative responsibility. The resident is responsible for the functioning of the Department at night and on weekends. A senior resident and attending are available at all times on an on-call basis. Thus, we emphasize the need to develop the skills and assume responsibility in the managerial as well as the medical spheres of a radiology department. Residents are encouraged to work with members of the Department's teaching staff on research projects. Residents presenting papers at national conferences are supported and sponsored by the Department. Regular research conferences, as well as a monthly Journal Club, contribute to the pursuit of such projects. Several papers have been presented at national meetings and published in peer reviewed journals. Special recognition has been awarded by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) to residents for their research in neuroradiology and interventional radiology. The goal of the residency-training program is to train well-rounded, highly competent diagnostic radiologists who are equally prepared to practice general diagnostic radiology or to enter into a fellowship which may lead to academic and/or subspecialty radiology careers. Almost all residents from the program continue their training in fellowships around the country.
Recent fellowship appointments Residents are guaranteed either hospital housing or parking. American Board of Radiology Since 2004, the Oral Board pass rate is 96% (one conditional pass). The Diagnostic Radiology program at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital participates in the National Residency Matching Program with the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). All positions for 2008 have been filled. We are currently recruiting applicants to fill 6 positions at the PGY II level for July 2009. For further information about our program, please direct your inquiries to: Nolan Kagetsu, M.D. |