General Radiology (Clinical Elective)

4 units

This four-week Radiology elective allows students to rotate through four of the following Radiology services: Abdomen, Musculoskeletal, Neuroradiology, Nuclear Medicine, Emergency Radiology, Mammography, Chest, Pediatrics, and Interventional Radiology. The primary course objectives are to familiarize students with the scope of diagnostic and interventional radiology, including the consulting role radiologists provide to primary care and specialty providers; risks/benefits and cost effectiveness of radiologic examinations; guidelines for ordering common studies; and the radiologic appearance and workup of specific disease entities. Students spend most of each day in the Radiology reading rooms with residents, fellows, and faculty for interactive teaching at the workstation, driven by daily clinical cases. Students will attend morning and noon didactic conferences with the residents. The students will have a primarily observational role in conferences and in the clinical setting. On Thursday afternoons, students will participate in an interactive conference led by a Radiology resident on a scheduled topic in Radiology. Prior to each Thursday conference, students are expected to view assigned lectures from the course material available online (WUSTL Box). On Friday afternoons, students will present an interesting case from the week in the format of a PowerPoint presentation. All of the PowerPoint presentations will be submitted at the end of the rotation for grading. Students will also be evaluated on their preparedness and participation in the afternoon conferences.