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Nuclear Medicine Residency Program

Facilities

The University of Maryland Medical System/Hospital is an 800 bed facility with a large out-patient department. 

One unique aspect of the hospital is The Maryland Institute of Emergency Medical Services System, which covers the State of Maryland and comprises a 140-bed critical care unit, completed in 1989, and housing the most advanced technological support systems for trauma in the world.

The equipment of the Radiology Department is state-of-the-art. Nuclear Medicine is physically and administratively an integrated part of the Department of Radiology and is equipped with six SPECT scanners, four of which are dual head imaging devices.

The department has deployed a hospital-wide PACS. Nuclear Medicine performs approximately 10,000 studies per year.

The VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore Division, is a part of the program.  This 300-bed all-digital VA Hospital, which opened in January 1993, is attached to the University of Maryland Hospital.

The VA Radiology Department operates a filmless PACS environment and is one of the most advanced of its kind in the world.  All UMH residency programs are fully integrated with the Baltimore VA.  Approximately 15% of the nuclear medicine resident's time is spent in the VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore Division.

There are extensive teaching files, including the ACR Learning Laboratory and a large departmental library.

A department photographer is available on a full-time basis.  4500 sq. ft. of equipped basic research space is assigned to our department in a separate Medical School building.

Approximately 240,000 examinations are performed per year in the Radiology Department at UMMS. Of these, approximately 10,000 are angiographic and/or interventional procedures, 40,000 are CT and 10,000 MR exams.

Nuclear Medicine performs approximately 10,000 scans per year and approximately 12,000 sonographic procedures are performed annually.

Additionally, the Baltimore VA Medical Center performs approximately 70,000 imaging exams annually.


For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).