Cross Sectional Imaging (CT, Ultrasound, MRI),
Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Judy Yee, M.D., Chief of Radiology

Radiology at the VAMC-SF offers fellow positions in a combined fellowship including CT, MRI and Ultrasound. At the entry to San Francisco Bay, abutting the Golden Gate National Seashore, this is a 350-bed, acute care medical center, one of four training hospitals of the University of California San Francisco Department of Radiology. All faculty are members of the University of California San Francisco staff committed to patient care, teaching, and research. An internationally recognized magnetic resonance spectroscopy program is also on station. All equipment is state-of-the-art including 64 slice CT.

CT training encompasses chest/cardiac, body as well as neuroradiologic cases, including access to a unique well-equipped 3D Imaging Laboratory, with frequent CT angiography, CT virtual colonoscopy and bronchoscopy, and CT-guided biopsy/aspiration procedures. Training is also provided in coronary CT angiography.

MRI training includes a balance of neuroradiology, musculoskeletal, and body cases, as well as an advanced program of MR angiography. Cardiac MR training also provided.

Ultrasound training is comprehensive, excluding obstetrics, and has a strong vascular component, including carotid and graft surveillance, abdominal vascular, and venous studies, as well as intraoperative, thyroid, parathyroid, male pelvis, renal, bladder, scrotum, and biopsy localization cases.

Involvement in interventional procedures includes percutaneous biopsy, abscess drainage, and other procedures localized by CT, Ultrasound, or MRI.

This fellowship is primarily body cross sectional imaging, but CT and MRI rotations also include all neuroradiological and musculoskeletal (including 3D and CT bone densitometry) studies. While based at the VA, this fellowship is a UCSF appointment, well supervised by VA and UCSF faculty who provide care. Fellows are encouraged to become involved in a research project and publish and present their work.