Abdominal Imaging Fellowship

Abdominal Imaging Fellowship

Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health, is one of the busiest transplant centers in the country, which provides our fellows exposure to all aspects of transplant imaging.

Baylor University Medical Center Abdominal Imaging Fellowship is a one-year, fully accredited Texas Medical Board program.

Our training program benefits from a diverse subspecialized, fellowship-trained staff of radiologists. Fellows in our program gain in-depth experience in oncologic imaging, transplant imaging – particularly hepatic imaging - and musculoskeletal imaging.

We accept up to three fellows per year.

Curriculum

Rotations overview

Our clinical training provides progressive, supervised responsibility for patient care. The one-year fellowship is composed of 13 four-week rotation blocks, which include:

• Body MRI
• Body CT/US
• Chest imaging
• Outpatient oncology imaging
• Fluoroscopy
• ED imaging

Elective rotations typically chosen include:

• Neuroradiology
• Breast imaging
• PET/Nuclear medicine

A one-to-two-week elective mini-rotation with MRI technologists is strongly encouraged.

Rotation descriptions

Body MRI

The body MRI rotation will cover all body MRI applications, including:

• Abdomen
• Male and female pelvis
• Chest
• Vascular

Because Baylor University Medical Center is a quaternary center with a high-volume liver transplant center, our fellows obtain extensive liver MRI experience. This includes the imaging spectrum of acute and chronic liver disease and their treatments, such as:

• Chemoembolization
• Radioembolization
• Radiofrequency ablation
• Irreversible electroporation
• Orthotopic liver transplant
• The evaluation of living liver donation candidates

The close collegial ties of radiology with the liver transplant clinic give fellows significant clinical exposure with experienced hepatopancreaticobiliary surgeons, oncologists and radiation oncologists with real-time case review affording fellows invaluable insight into clinical decision making. This experience is bolstered by biweekly liver tumor conferences.

Fellows gain exposure to MR elastography, as BUMC was the first site in the nation to employ this technique commercially. Biweekly pancreas cyst conference and evaluation of pancreatic islet cell transplant patients round out the fellows’ upper GI experience.

Fellows obtain ample exposure to luminal bowel evaluation as our MR enterography practice supports the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic, and MR defecography has taken on a larger role in dynamic pelvic imaging.

Fellows become seasoned in the MR evaluation of rectal cancer staging and restaging, to include participation in biweekly rectal cancer conference.

MSK

The vast majority of the training is one-on-one individual attention with a fellowship-trained staff reading the large volume of MRI and musculoskeletal cases. MSK teaching is targeted at not only case interpretation but also optimizing MR protocol design and standardized reporting. The outpatient training experience includes arthrogram procedures.

Fellows have the opportunity to be participating members of the monthly bone and soft tissue tumor conference. In addition to sports and oncologic MSK experience, fellows receive ample training in utilizing MRI for infection diagnosis. There is an optional monthly foot and ankle conference.

STAT-dx

Access to STAT-dx is provided to all radiology residents and fellows.

How to apply

The Abdominal Imaging Fellowship is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 appointment year.

Download application form

Contact us

Hunter Pfeifer
Program Administrator

Email: Hunter.Pfeifer@BSWHealth.org
Verification requests: BUMCGMEVerifications@BSWHealth.org

Abdominal Imaging Fellowship
Baylor University Medical CenterDallas
3500 Gaston Ave
Dallas, TX 75246

Application requirements

In order to be considered for the program, applicants must submit the following materials with the application form:

• Three letters of recommendation, one of which must be from your Diagnostic Radiology program director
• Personal Statement to include:
  • Reasons of interest
  • Training expectations
  • Practice expectations
• Recent color photo
• Documents (copies are OK)
• Medical school transcript
• College of medicine diploma
• Internship certificate
• USMLE/COMLES scores