Resident Conferences
Daily Morning Conference: Every morning begins with a 7:30 AM resident conference. These conferences are a carefully designed organ-system based series of 290 didactic lectures given by the radiology faculty. Occasionally incorporated into the schedule are clinical correlation lectures given by Duke faculty from other clinical disciplines, case-based physics lectures by our department physicists, and Research Design lectures by our in-house statistician. Review of normal anatomy and radiologic- pathologic correlation is also incorporated into the lecture series.   Daily Case Conference and Hot Seat: Each rotation has a daily specialty-specific teaching conference. These conferences are usually case conferences given by attendings.  All of the residents attend "Hot Seat" conferences at noon on Monday and Friday, giving ample opportunity to practice discussing unknown cases in front of peers. Once a month, the Hot Seat conference is given by a group of first year residents who prepare and present the unknown cases.   Board Preparation: Beginning in March, the 4th year residents exclusively take cases at morning and Hot Seat conferences.  In addition, the faculty provide an additional one hour of dedicated board preparation case conference each day for 3 months leading up to the oral exam.   Radiology Grand Rounds: The entire Department of Radiology gathers each Thursday morning for Radiology Grand Rounds. The curriculum is designed to expose the faculty, residents and fellows to a variety of relevant topics, and to speakers including: (1) Duke Radiology faculty, (2) invited non-radiology Duke faculty from the medical center and the University and (3) invited speakers from outside of Duke. Named lectureships include The Robert Wilkerson, M.D. Lecture in Nuclear Medicine, The Ralph Heinz, M.D. Lecture in Neuroradiology, and The Herman Grossman, M.D. Lecture in Pediatric Radiology   Interdepartmental Conferences:  The various divisions within the Department of Radiology participate in numerous interdisciplinary conferences including Hepatobiliary, Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurology, Pulmonology, Vascular Surgery, Sports Medicine, Rheumatology, Urology, and Otolaryngology. These conferences are optional to interested radiology residents.   Sectional Roll-out conferences: Most of our individual sections have regular “roll-out” conferences, in which the most interesting cases of the day or week are reviewed as a group.  The Musculoskeletal and Abdominal Imaging sections have daily afternoon roll-outs.  The Neuroradiology section holds theirs twice-weekly.  Roll-outs in Pediatric Radiology and Nuclear Medicine are held weekly.