Pediatric Imaging
DIRECTOR: Paula Dickson, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology
PROGRAM: The Department of Pediatric Radiology at Emory University offers an ACGME-approved fellowship program in direct association with the Diagnostic Radiology program. All aspects of training take place at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston which is a newly renovated, free-standing 250 bed hospital across from the Emory campus. Approximately 103,000 studies are performed annually in the Radiology department. The experience at Children's ranges from referrals from our emergency room, our five immediate care centers located around the metropolitan perimeter and a base of more than 1400 referring pediatricians to sub-specialized tertiary cases including an extensive transplant service. The fellowship program is one year in duration and consists of twelve one-month rotations. The purpose of the fellowship is to train qualified radiologists to be highly competent in all aspects of pediatric radiology in order to serve the children in their communities, be it in an academic or private practice setting. In addition to fellowship training, four Emory radiology residents rotate through the department each month. In addition to a Pediatric Radiology fellow, there are fellowships in 11 other Pediatric surgical and medical subspecialties.
FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston enhances the lives of children through excellence in patient care, research and education. Serving our community with more than 30 pediatric specialties, Children's is committed to being a model for pediatric care. Children's is ranked among U.S. News & World Report's top pediatric hospitals and as one of the top three children's hospitals nationwide by Child magazine. In its rankings of pediatric specialties, Child magazine lists Children's in the top five for our oncology, cardiac, neonatal, orthopedic and pulmonology programs.
Our equipment is state-of-the-art and includes
- GE 64-slice CT unit
- One 1.5 GE and one 3T Siemens MRI units with cardiac software
- PET/CT to be installed in 2008
- Three Acuson Sequoia ultrasound machines with color and power Doppler (with the addition of one more room in 2008)
- One transcranial Doppler unit
- Dual-head Toshiba gamma camera
- Two digital Philips fluoroscopic units
- Toshiba angiographic equipment
- GE PACS with Centricity
FACULTY: The Medical Staff of Children's Hospital of Atlanta at Egleston includes 269 general pediatricians in addition to every subspecialty (30 total) including: General Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, Urology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery, Endocrinology, Infectious Disease, Cardiology, Critical Care, Emergency Care, Anesthesiology, Pathology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Hematology-Oncology and Rheumatology.
- Radiography /Fluoroscopy - three months
- Ultrasound - one month
- CT - one month
- US/CT/Body MRI/ Nuclear Medicine - two months
- Neuroradiology - two months
- Cardiac/Interventional - one month
- Electives - two months, one of which is an additional month of one of the above.
The fellow is always closely supervised to ensure proper technical instruction with all cases reviewed by attending physicians. During the second half of the fellowship, the fellow is given more responsibility in problem solving, consultation and performance of studies. The fellow assists in training at the workstation of Radiology residents and medical students and is also assigned resident noon conferences and medical student lectures during the department's 3rd year medical student rotation.
The fellow is given direct responsibility for the weekly interdepartmental Surgery/Radiology conference. Other conferences include a weekly Surgery didactic conference, weekly Radiology Grand Rounds, weekly Pediatric Grand Rounds, weekly Tumor Board, monthly Gastrointestinal conference and monthly Surgery/Pathology/Radiology conference. Daily Radiology noon conferences are held as well as a weekly Pediatric Radiology conference. When on the neuroradiology rotation, the fellow is involved with the monthly Neurosurgery/Radiology conference.
The fellow is asked to submit at least three cases to the teaching file per week. The fellow is encouraged to submit a paper or poster to the annual meeting of the Society of Pediatric Radiology.
CALL: After the first month, the fellow is on call one weekday twice a month and one weekend per month. Weekday call consists of working from 4pm to 10pm with an attending radiologist and then taking call from home. An Emory Radiology resident takes first call from 10 pm to 8am. On weekends, the staff member, fellow and resident arrive at 8AM and the faculty stays until all overnight emergency room and in-patients studies are read, followed by all morning in-patient, emergency room/outpatient and satellite films and add-on studies are read. Outpatient ultrasounds are also scheduled for Saturday morning. After covering a separate hospital, the attending returns to continue the day's work and leaves at approximately 10PM. The fellow and attending then cover call from home. There is always coverage by a staff radiologist. A sonographer is on call to assist with emergency ultrasound studies.
SALARY & BENEFITS (as of 6/2007):
PGY 6 $50,648
PGY 7 $51,719
Academic stipend of $1500 for meetings and books
Expense for temporary Georgia license or $100 toward Georgia license covered by Emory GME office
Vacation and Meetings
The fellow is entitled to 21 vacation days per year which includes holidays
The fellow is given five paid working days to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Radiology.
Medical leaves of absence may be granted for short-term illness or pregnancy with payment up to six weeks. However, the fellow must extend his/her contract to make up any time missed over 4 weeks.
APPLICATION FORMS: Click here to view and print the form.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Program Director : Paula Dickson,M.D.
paula.dickson@choa.org
Program Coordinator: Margaret Nix
Margaret.nix@choa.org
404-785-6532
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