The five-year Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions/Michigan State University Diagnostic Radiology Residency is designed to provide comprehensive training in all phases of this specialty.
Noon conferences, conducted by Radiology attendings, occur on Thursdays and Fridays in Grand Rapids. New topics include Cardiac MRI and CT. In addition residents have an opportunity to attend Wednesday noon lectures on topics such as PET-CT, Emergency radiology and Breast MRI. Residents spend one day per week at MSU for didactic teaching sessions, wherein an average of 40-60 Radiology Residents from around Michigan gather to hear lectures from visiting professors, including many oral board examiners.
Year One: Rotating Internship
The first year of the program is designed to provide a solid medical foundation. Residents rotate through the three Grand Rapids hospitals and assume a major responsibility for patient care.
There is ample opportunity to discuss findings, therapeutic approaches and pathophysiology with senior residents and attending faculty physicians, both informally and in formal teaching rounds. Departmental and specialty teaching conferences complement the clinical experience.
General Medicine: 1 Month
Emergency Medicine: 1 Month
Pulmonary Medicine: 1 Month
Critical Care Medicine: 1 Month
Cardiology: 1 Month
Pediatrics: 1 Month
Neurology: 1 Month
Radiology: 3 Months
General Surgery: 1 Month
Orthopedic Surgery: 1 Month
Years Two-Four: Radiology
The first twelve months of rotations in Diagnostic Radiology include one month of Gastrointestinal radiology and fluoroscopy, General Radiology, Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, Pediatric Radiology, Emergency Radiology, and Neuroradiology. This prepares the resident to begin independent call duties during the tenth month of the second post-graduate year.
During the remainder of the second year and continuing in the third and fourth years, residents take three rotations at MSU (MRI & General), as well as at the three Grand Rapids hospitals. These include General Radiology with emphasis on bone, chest, gastrointestinal and genitourinary systems, Nuclear Radiology, Diagnostic Ultrasound, Computerized Tomography, MRI, Pediatric Radiology, Emergency Radiology, Interventional Angiography, Neuroradiology, Cardiac Radiology, and Mammography.
During the third year, all residents attend a 6-week course at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. This course focuses on correlation of gross, microscopic, and radiologic pathology.
Year Five
The fifth year is tailored to meet the individual resident's needs and career goals. Our faculty begins working with each resident early during training to determine specific specialty interests.
Hospitals
There are three major teaching hospitals that form an integral part of the Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research for Health Professions/Michigan State University Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program. They are Saint Mary's Health Care, Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital and Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital.
Spectrum Health Butterworth Campus
Spectrum Health Butterworth Campus is a 520-bed non-profit acute care teaching hospital which admits more than 36,000 patients annually. It serves as a Level I Trauma Center and the High Risk OB Referral Center for West Michigan. More than 99,000 patients are seen in the Emergency Department and 19,000 in the Ambulatory Care Department each year. Spectrum Health Butterworth has an active medical staff of over 300 physicians.
Spectrum Health Blodgett Campus
Spectrum Health Blodgett Campus is a 410 bed non-profit acute care teaching hospital with an active medical staff of 240 physicians. There are more than 14,000 admissions annually. Emergency room visits number about 37,000 per year; there are approximately 14,000 clinic visits. Spectrum Health Blodgett houses the West Michigan Burn Unit, an Arthritis Institute which focuses on reconstructive surgery and Michigan's only Regional Poison Control Center outside of Detroit.
Saint Mary's Health Care
Saint Mary's Health Care is a non-profit 300-bed acute care teaching hospital, has more than 200 attending physicians on the active staff. The hospital admits over 16,000 patients annually, and its Family Health Center and Comprehensive Health Center record 34,500 visits each year.
Hospital Equipment
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital
- 6 Ultrasound units
- 3 multislice CT's, one with CT fluoroscopy
- 5 flouroscopy rooms, one remote
- Two 1.5 Tesla MRI units
- Three angiography suites
- Four gamma cameras
- 5 radiography rooms
- Coming - 3T MRI, New 16 slice scanner
"BEARS" (Outpatient Imaging Center for Spectrum Health)
- PET/CT
- Outpatient MRI with 0.7T open MRI (MSK, Body)
- Outpatient multislice CT
Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital
- 5 ultrasound units
- 2 multislice CT's
- 1.5T MRI
- 2 remote and 2 nonremote fluoro rooms
- 2 radiography rooms
- Two angiography suites (Biplane coming soon)
- Three gamma cameras
- Coming is biplane angiography
Saint Mary's Health Center
- 1 multislice and 1 single slice scanner
- 2 1.5T MRI's
- 4 ultrasound units
- 2 angiography suites, 1 with biplane
- 4 nonremote flouroscopy rooms
- 2 Radiography rooms
- Coming - new 16 slice scanner