Radiology Fellowship Frequently Asked Questions

• Health, dental and vision
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Annual & sick leave
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Backup child and elder care

A detailed summary of all benefits can be found in our Benefits Guide.

Applicants will be disclosed information on the call duty working hours during the interview process.

Rotations are required in neuro/IR/nucs - electives include additional months in neuro/IR/nucs plus fetal imaging/cardiac MRI/body MRI.

The day starts at 7:30 a.m. when the morning didactic lecture begins. At 8:15 a.m. the fellows begin their assigned rotations for the day; typically there is a noon conference. If not on-call, the day usually ends at 5 p.m.

Over 130,000 cases are performed at Children's National each year. The number of cases that are performed daily depends on the rotation.

There are many research opportunities in the Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology. At the beginning of the year every effort is made to identify interesting research projects for each fellow to participate in. Posters, case reports and abstracts are also commonly completed by fellows during their training. Fellows are expected to complete a research project during their year of training, in hopes that it can be presented at a future meeting, particularly the Society for Pediatric Radiology and/or published 

In addition, many of the larger research projects can benefit from the help of fellows. There are large ongoing studies in the areas of fetal imaging, neuro imaging, cardiac imaging, trauma, neurosonology, Gaucher's disease, neurofibromatosis, and sickle cell disease. Fellows are also expected to complete a quality improvement project. 

There are multiple conferences throughout the week at Children's National. Didactic conferences for fellows and residents occur daily from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m., Tuesday through Friday, and noon on Monday. Interesting case conferences are held Friday noon, Neuro interesting case conference Wednesday noon, fellows conference Thursday noon and journal club monthly.

In addition, there are weekly fetal conferences, urology conferences and a tumor board that the fellows can attend as well. Monthly conferences with genetics, GI, ENT, neurosurgery, neurology, and orthopedics can be attended by fellows depending on their rotation schedule.

Grand rounds, professorial rounds and guest lecturers occur weekly at Children's National and if the topic is relevant to the specialty, the fellows are encouraged to attend.