Question By: Dr.Himansu Shekhar Mohanty
Do you take international radiology residents for your Radiology fellowships/residency? Is it mandatory to pass the USMLE for applying for fellowships? What score ideally do you suggest to have a good chance to get a fellowship in your department?
Best regards
Director’s Response To International Radiology Residents Question:
So to answer your questions, we have taken international radiology residents in the past. But more often, we take residents who are from the United States or residents that go to medical school in the Caribbean and then return to the United States. Nonetheless, some of our best residents have been foreign graduates!!
If you are coming from a foreign program, passing the USMLE is required. Typically, we use the scores as a baseline cutoff. Most importantly for us, we just need to know that you will be likely to pass the new written radiology core exam. However, the cutoff varies from year to year depending upon the number of applicants and the overall competitiveness of the specialty for any given year. Usually, above 220 is a reasonable level but again that is a moving target. On occasion, we make exceptions if we know the applicant well, there are special circumstances, or the application is so outstanding that the person still merits an interview.
Hope that helps!!
Barry Julius, MD
