University of Texas Health Science Center Department of Radiology

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Department of Radiology is the second largest academic department in Radiological Sciences in the United States. [ [http://radiology.uthscsa.edu/ORG/welcome.htm Chairman's Welcome ] ] Its [http://radsci.uthscsa.edu/ Graduate Program in Radiological Sciences] offers graduate training in various tracks, including Medical Physics, Radiation biology, Medical Health Physics, and Neuroimaging. In addition the educational enterprise includes an accredited radiology residency program and a number of fellowships.

The department was historically the first program in the United States to establish a Ph.D. program for radiology residents, which is known as the "Human Imaging" graduate program. [ [http://www.uthscsa.edu/hscnews/singleformat.asp?newID=2477 HSC NEWS - The University of Texas Health Science Center - The Office of External Affairs ] ] While the Radiology Department is part of the [http://som.uthscsa.edu/ School of Medicine] , the graduate program is housed administratively within the UTHSCSA Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

With a minimum of 55 graduate students and over 60 fixed and adjunct faculty members, the program is currently one of the largest graduate programs in medical physics in the United States, and is one of only 17 programs in North America accredited by the [http://www.campep.org/ Commission on the Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs] (CAMPEP).

Graduate students research training is conducted in three primary locations within the UTHSCSA complex: the [http://ric.uthscsa.edu Research Imaging Center] , [http://www.ctrc.net/wps/portal/ Cancer Therapy and Research Center] and the Research Division of the Radiology Department.

The Department also has clinical training facilities at Brooke Army Medical Center, South Texas Medical Center including the University Hospital System and the Audie Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital, [http://texascancerclinic.com/index/index.cfm Texas Cancer Clinic] , [http://marpinc.com/ Medical and Radiation Physics, Inc. (MARP)] and [http://www.intl-mps.com/ International Medical Physics Services] .

References

ee also

*South Texas Medical Center
*UTHSCSA

External links

* [http://radiology.uthscsa.edu/ Radiology Department Official Website]
* [http://ric.uthscsa.edu/mango MANGO: Imaging software developed by the department]
* [http://www.nyssrs.org] NY state Society of Radiologic Technologists