The Baystate Medical Center / Tufts University Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program provides a supportive high quality learning environment. The department provides a full complement of multimodality and subspecialty services to the Baystate Health System. Modalities include conventional radiography, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, mammography and interventional radiology. Subspecialty services include pediatric and fetal imaging, neuroradiology, cardiac imaging, interventional radiology and breast imaging. In-house faculty coverage extends from 7 a.m. to midnight daily. Coverage from midnight until 7 a.m. includes an in-house radiology resident with faculty available via teleradiology.
Residency Director: Stephen C. O’Connor, MD email: Stephen.O’Connor@BHS.org
Associate Residency Director: Tara Catanzano, MD email: Tara.Catanzano@bhs.org
Residency Coordinator: Teresa Lalli email: Teresa.Lalli@bhs.org phone: 413.794.3521
Program Statistics:
- Total Residenct: 16 | Residents per class: 4
- Male/Female ratio: 4:1. Married 38%
- Number of Faculty: 27
- ABR pass Rate 2004-2009 (Statistics provided by ABR for 5 year periods): Written—100% | Oral—95%
Baystate Medical Center Statistics:
- 653 beds
- Residencies: 10 | Fellowships: 16
- Emergency Room: 105,000 yearly visits | Pediatric—25%; Admissions—21%; | Level-1 Trauma cases/day—5
- Children's Hospital: beds—100 | PICU beds—10 | Level III NICU beds—55 | Deliveries—4,200
Resident Benefits & Facilities:
- Salary - PG2: $53,000, PG3: $56,000, PG4: $58,500, PG5: $61,000
- Moonlighting opportunity (all 4 years) at outpatient MRI Center
- AFIP radiology pathology correlation course, 4 weeks in Washington, DC
- 4 weeks vacation/year, meal subsidy, free parking
- Funding provided for scientific presentations at national meetings
- Disability/Malpractice/Health/Life Insurance
- PACS and Electronic Medical Record
- Excellent library and online resources
- Simulation Center
- Grand rounds lecture series in conjunction with UCONN and Hartford Hospitals
