The Department of Radiology at the USC School of Medicine offers a diverse and intensive clinical and academic environment. The Department of Radiology is the busiest in the country. Physicians in training are exposed to varied clinical experiences in a large urban public hospital (LAC+USC), in a private tertiary referral center (USC University Hospital), and in one of only twenty nationally funded comprehensive cancer treatment and research centers (Kenneth Norris Cancer Hospital and Research Institute). Most of the clinical experience is at the LAC+USC Medical Center, caring for the indigent and uninsured population of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles is at the crossroads of immigrant populations from Central and South America, as well as Asia and the Pacific Rim. LAC+USC Medical Center is the busiest Level 1 Trauma Center in the Unites States. All these factors result in a high volume of medically diverse patients.

The Department's Education & Training Program uses the USC teaching hospitals for all training. The teaching complex includes the above mentioned hospitals: LAC+USC Medical Center (1,250 beds), Kenneth Norris Cancer Hospital and Research Institute (60 beds and a large outpatient practice), USC University Hospital (275 beds), and Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (331 beds). There are four libraries available which combined contain over 52,000 volumes and subscribe to approximately 1,000 journals and periodicals.

State of the art equipment in the four teaching hospitals include 6 spiral CT scanners, 15 state-of-the-art ultrasound systems with color and power Doppler, and 4 high field strength (1.5 Tesla) MRI scanners (2 GE, 1 Philips ACS III and 1 Siemens). Nuclear medicine equipment include 8 SPECT tomographic cameras including single, dual and triple head systems, 5 stationary cameras, 3 portable cameras, 2 probe counting systems and an active PET scanner with a cyclotron.

At present our department performs nearly 500,000 radiographic examinations a year at LAC+USC Medical Center, USC University Hospital and Norris Cancer Hospital. This includes 4,200 vascular/interventional procedures, 18,500 mammograms, 30,500 CT scans, 35,000 ultrasound studies, 8,500 MRI studies and 10,600 nuclear medicine examinations.

Because of a decrease in the budget for Health Services in Los Angeles County, outpatient care will be restricted throughout the county, including the outpatient clinics at LAC+USC. The expectation is that Emergency Room visits and inpatients will increase. Thus, these budget cuts will have no impact on the patient diversity or the educational content.

Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program »
The four-year residency program is ACGME accredited. It is designed to provide a balance between general radiology and advanced imaging modalities. Our goal is to train excellent general radiologists with a focus of subspecialty interest that will be sought after in the job market.

Image Processing and Informatics Laboratory »
USC's Image Processing and Informatics Laboratory (IPILab) currently has a NIH T32 Training program entitled: "Biomedical Imaging Informatics Training Program". Radiology Residents are eligible. See the link above for more information.

Fellowships »

Clerkships »