Education

Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program

Overview

The principle goals and objectives of Yale New Haven Hospital's (YNHH) Residency Program are to provide an optimal, advanced and diverse environment in which the residents learn diagnostic radiology, guided by high quality faculty who are dedicated to providing preceptorship in image interpretation, clinical problem solving, performance of procedures, teaching and consultation, and research endeavors. The faculty/resident ratio is 2:1. Residents are given progressively greater responsibility as ability and experience warrant. It is our hope that not only will they be well prepared to take the written and oral American Board of Radiology (ABR) exams, but also that they will be life long learners who will be able to adapt well to future imaging methods in our ever-changing specialty.

YNHH's Residency Program in Diagnostic Radiology is offered through the NRMP and is approved by the ACGME for 28 residents. The program begins after a clinical internship in the United States, which may be done at Yale or elsewhere. There are several excellent internships in the greater New Haven area available separately through the NRMP, including two positions at Greenwich Hospital that are linked with Yale Radiology.

We are extremely proud of Yale Diagnostic Radiology residency program and our residents - both current residents and past graduates. Over the past many years our residents have all passed the ABR Board written exams on their first attempts and only one resident failed the ABR oral exam. This places YDR among the top programs nationally relative to Board performance.

Another measure of our program is resident success obtaining desired fellowship training. Recent graduates secured fellowship positions at Yale Radiology, Duke, MGH, UCSF, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Hospital for Special Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Stanford, Boston Children’s Hospital and University of Miami. One recent graduate will be an attending physician at Travis Air Force Base, and two graduates are joining private practice groups.

Through the years about 25-30 percent of our graduates have joined academic practices and occupy faculty positions at some of the most prestigious institutions in the nation. The program director, Jamal Bokhari, MD, is very proud that several former residents have become residency program directors in academic institutions around the country.