Overview
We offer a one-year clinical fellowship designed to provide academically oriented graduates of radiology residency focused on advanced training in body magnetic resonance imaging across a wide range of diagnostic applications. By the end of the fellowship, a trainee should have the skills and experience to develop a robust body MR clinical service and perform translational research.
Structure of the Fellowship
The fellowship provides a year of intensive training in body MRI for up to four fellows. Fellows spend most of their time dedicated to the body MRI clinical service, MR-guided procedures, research, and teaching. The fellows are responsible for running the clinical body MR service of multiple inpatient and outpatient clinical scanners, including a PET-MR and dedicated pediatric scanners, with primary responsibility for most MR-guided procedures, protocols, image acquisition oversight, safety, and initial interpretations.
There are also outstanding opportunities for research, with close ties to leading MR engineers and physicists at the Lucas Center for Imaging. At least 20% dedicated research time is included in the fellowship. The body MR fellows also have a strong educational presence in the Department, with responsibility for organizing clinical MR conferences for the Residency Program and presenting at interdisciplinary clinical conferences. Like all Diagnostic Radiology fellows at Stanford, Body MR fellows participate plain film interpretation at approximately four hours per month, if their visa and appointment status allows. Additionally, fellows participate in coverage of emergency department imaging.
Equipment
Clinical MRI Volume: Approximately 200 body MR diagnostic cases and several MR-guided procedures per week
Goals of the Fellowship
Evaluation and Supervision All imaging studies are interpreted with an attending radiologist who supervises the fellow at readouts. In addition, each fellow’s progress is reviewed on a quarterly basis.
Accreditation The Clinical Fellowship in Body MRI is not an ACGME-accredited fellowship in the US, and we are not aware of any upcoming plans by the ACGME to accredit it.
To apply, upload at the bottom of this page the following documents:
Additionally, please submit three letters of recommendation, one of which should be from either the chairperson of your present department or the director of your residency program, and two from additional faculty members in your department. Letters may be sent via email loening@stanford.edu and leschan1@stanford.edu or mailed to:
Andreas Loening
Department of Radiology
Stanford University, School of Medicine
1201 Welch Road, Rm P287, Lucas Center
Stanford, CA 94305-5102
Applications will be considered starting approximately 23 months prior to the start of the fellowship (July 1st). We are accepting applications for the fellowship year 2024-2025 starting on August 1st 2022. You will be contacted if selected for an interview. For the fellowship year 2024-2025, interviews will start on Nov 7th 2022.