Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital Program

Accreditation Number: 4263521011.
Positions Offered: 1
Duration: 12 months
Application Deadline: We will accept applications for July 2022 position in the fall of 2020. We will follow the timeline for the Match, so please adhere to the timeline posted at the SSR website as well as NRMP.

Other: The SUNY at Stony Brook Program (State University of New York) has an opening for one Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellow per year in our ACGME-accredited fellowship. The institution is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is part of the State University of New York, Stony Brook Campus. In addition to active involvement in procedural and technical aspects of musculoskeletal imaging, there is ample volume and exposure to trauma, sports, tumor, joint replacements, wrist/hand, elbow, knee, shoulder, hip, spine, sonography, pediatric imaging and rheumatology. The Fellow has dedicated protected time to pursue scholarly activities, research and particular areas of interest.

The department has 5 musculoskeletal radiologists with varied subspecialty and/or research interests in addition to 60 clinical faculty, 18 research faculty and 25 radiology residents. We perform in excess of 350,000 exams per year in our 624-bed teaching hospital. We have multiple satellite hospitals including Southampton Hospital and Eastern Long Island Hospital (now part of Stony Brook Medicine), contributing to increasing MSK caseloads.

The Fellow will be fully involved in clinical activities at our main University Hospital, as well as three outpatient imaging centers in and around the University Campus. Our Interventional Radiology faculties will initially supervise the Fellow for major procedures such as, but not limited to, kyphoplasty, imaging guided tumor biopsies, and bone/bone marrow biopsies. Other inpatient and outpatient MSK procedures such as joint aspiration, joint injections including arthrography, cyst/fluid aspiration, bursal injections, etc., will be primarily supervised dedicated MSK faculties. The Fellow will then gain increased degree of independence and responsibility for scheduling, performing, and following up of those procedures. Dedicated MSK ultrasound imaging is done at our outpatient imaging centers, and the Fellow may learn the skills for scanning and image interpretation with the guidance of MSK faculties and highly skilled ultrasound techs. Our new Cancer Center (MART building) was opened in 2019 and additional MR/CT scanners, brand-new IR suite, and dedicated reading room became available. Outpatient IR-suite is also currently under construction in one of our imaging centers.

The hospital has residencies and fellowships in many clinical services. As a major academic center within the school of medicine, the Fellow will interact with our full-time orthopedic surgery department as well as orthopedic residents, hand surgery fellows, PM& R residents, rheumatology fellows, emergency department and medical students and research faculty. In particular, the Fellow will closely work with Orthopedic residents for wet reads, consultations, procedure requests, and tumor board presentations/discussions. The Fellow will be the first point of contact for Technologists if they have any questions regarding protocolling the study of all modalities. There is an excellent variety of cases and pathology (mixture of rare pathologies for academic purposes and common bread-and-butter community medicine type pathologies for routine training), which is a major advantage of Stony Brook being the center of advanced medicine in the entire Suffolk County. Biostatistics services are available for research purposes.

Stony Brook is a beautiful campus with easy access to New York City and eastern Long Island. In addition to the cultural opportunities offered at the University, which include a well-known film festival, comedy festival, and The Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook is close to many leisure activities offered by the Hamptons as well as New York City. All applications are coordinated by Linda Erickson at [email protected]. For any additional information regarding the Fellowship, please contact Linda Erickson or our Program Director, Dr. Kathleen Finzel ([email protected]).