University of California, San Francisco

Positions Offered: 5
Duration: 1 year
Application Deadline: Please email Sora Kang (above) or visit the following website: http://radiology.ucsf.edu/education/fellowships/clinical/musculoskeletal The clinical musculoskeletal fellowship program at UCSF encompasses all aspects of musculoskeletal radiology. The fellowship is of one year duration and four fellows are selected each year. There is a close relationship between the MSK section and referring orthopedists and rheumatologists. The fellowship includes rotations through the UCSF Parnassus campus and the UCSF Orthopedic Institute at Mission Bay, which has a large Sports Medicine Clinic. The fellowship includes a significant volume of joint MRIs, outpatient and inpatient musculoskeletal imaging, as well as spine, pediatric musculoskeletal imaging, rheumatology, and bone tumors. Additionally, a significant volume of musculoskeletal interventions are performed by the fellows, including joint arthrography, steroid injections, bone biopsies, radiofrequency ablations of osteoid osteomas, and various ultrasound-guided procedures. Diagnostic and procedural musculoskeletal ultrasound is also offered. Conferences include sports medicine, tumor board, rheumatology, journal club, morbidity and mortality, and metabolic. Opportunity for fellows to teach UCSF medical students and residents. Additional active, extramurally funded clinical research group in rheumatology, osteoporosis, orthopedics, MR imaging. Additional research experience can be gained working with MQIR. Applications will be reviewed starting October 1st and interviews will offered for January and February

Assistant Program Director: Rina Patel, MD