Contents:

• Welcome Letter
• Residency Training Programs
• Facilities
  

Welcome Letter

Fletcher Allen Health Care offers a comprehensive four year residency in Diagnostic Radiology. The department is staffed by 32 board certified radiologists, each of whom has received formal sub-specialty fellowship training. The residency is ACGME accredited and accepts six candidates per year via the national resident match program (NRMP). The educational experience at Fletcher Allen Health Care is augmented by a two month rotation in pediatric radiology at the Children's Hospital Boston and a four week rotation at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.

Further inquiries should be directed to our program coordinator, Ms. Sarah Kerr, who can be reached via e-mail or by telephone at (802) 847-0794. The program director is Kristen DeStigter, M.D.

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Residency Training Programs

The residency program in diagnostic radiology at Fletcher Allen Health Care is aimed at providing first-rate postgraduate education in the training of diagnostic radiologists. Our goal is to produce excellent clinical radiologists who will do well in securing the fellowship or job of their choice. We count among our alumni the entire spectrum of practice styles from solo practitioners in rural hospitals to professors at America's most prestigious teaching institutions. As rapidly as the technologies in diagnostic radiology change, it is necessary that our curriculum be in a constant state of revision. We strive to achieve a distribution of rotations which will allow first-year residents to gain basic proficiency in as many areas as possible while not allowing senior residents' skills to atrophy in the basics as they hone their knowledge in the subspecialties of Radiology. Residents are encouraged to participate in ongoing clinical research and to use elective time during the fourth year to complete projects for publication. The program is enhanced by rotations at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston and at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.

One of our most valuable assets is the camaraderie enjoyed among residents and between residents and staff, and the enthusiasm for teaching by the faculty.  Although we are fortunate to have state-of-the-art equipment spanning the spectrum of diagnostic radiology, it is this personal atmosphere which most allows our residents to reach their full potential.

Steven Braff, M.D,
Chairman, Department of Radiology

Kristen DeStigter, M.D.
Residency Program Director

Sarah Kerr
Residency Coordinator

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Facilities

The Department of Radiology at Fletcher Allen Health Care has state of the art technology that serves the Vermont and Northern New York Community. Please see the list below regarding the technology of the Radiology Department at Fletcher Allen:

FAHC is a luminary and beta site for a number of medical device manufacturers:

  Philips Medical Systems,  MRI and CT
  McKesson,  PACS
  General Electric, Ultrasound
  Vital Images, Vitrea  3D Workstations
  Invivo,  MRI Coils
  MRI Devices,  MRI Coils  

Radiology residents at FAHC train on the most sophisticated equipment in the world.

Department Of Radiology Equipments as of early 2008:

 -Four MRI Units
    3.0 Tesla Full time Research MRI 
    Philips 3.0 Tesla Clinical MRI
    Philips 1.0 Tesla High Field Open Clinical MRI   
    with the Ambient Environment 
    MRI  with the Ambient Environment
    GE 1.5 Tesla LX MRI
 -Five High Speed Helical CT Scanners
    Philips Brilliance 64 slice CT
    Philips Brilliance 40 slice CT
    Two Philips Brilliance 16 slice CTs
    GE Qxi 4 slice CT 
 -Six state-of-the-art ultrasound units with  
  color doppler
 -Nuclear radiology includes both SPECT-CT 
  and dual head   
    SPECT cardiac imaging with attenuation 
    correction 
 -Six Digital Fluoroscope Units
 -Three Angiograph Suites 
 -Two new nterventional/angiographyrooms 
    Siemens digital biplane unit
    Philips Integris Flat panel digital angiography
    room
 -Digital Mammography equipment including a 
  sterotactic biopsy unit with CAD

The residents and fellows at Fletcher Allen Health Care have outstanding educational resources at their fingertips from 24/7 online access to educational electronic journals, an extensive collection of textbooks in the Dana Medical Library (At the UVM College of Medicine), which is conveniently attached to the hospital.  MyPACS has also been introduced to the residents and fellows as another learning tool.  It is readily available for their access to teaching files.

More recently, the Radiology Department has implemented an electronic portfolio system for the residents and fellows, transitioning the Residency program into a paperless educational system.

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