I will first give a broad overview of DNB/FNB courses for Breast Imaging before elaborating on my DNB experience at Kovai Medical Center. Subspeciality: Breast Imaging Duration: 1 year Eligibility criteria: MD Radiology /DNB Radiology Institutes: There are many institutes now that offer fellowship in breast imaging. Few of them are DNB accredited as per …
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Dr Argha Chatterjee from Tata Medical Center recently took an excellent series of sessions on basic biostatistics for the Cafe Roentgen REF webinar series (you can view the webinars here). Imagine you seeing a liver lesion with peripheral washout sign. If the referring physician asks you whether the lesion is an adenocarcinoma or HCC, should …
Hospital/Imaging Centre and City: Tata Medical Center, Kolkata Duration: 2 years About the fellowship: So it basically started off like this. I was working part time in a scan center, fresh after passing my DNB. And pretty soon, I realised that it was not my cup of tea. I could not accept the lack of …
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Hospital and City: All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur. Duration: 1 year duration. Number of seats: 2 seats every year. Exam usually takes place in the July-August period every year. Diagnostic exposure: The department is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment. There are 2 CT scanners (Siemens 128-slice dual source dual energy), one 3T GE MRI …
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Institute: Cardiac Imaging Fellowship, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Duration: 1 year No. of seats: 1 per year Eligibility: MD/DNB/DMRD Entrance exam: No entrance exam; there is a fellowship interview instead. Topics asked in the interview pertain to cardiovascular imaging and further interests in career. Otherwise there is no specific questionnaire or list of questions which can be asked Fellowship …
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This is not a post on radiology. It is a post on something much more basic; on understanding what goes through a patient's mind and how can we humanize medicine and the doctor-patient relationship. And before you start changing the tab, let me assure you there is no philosophical exposition ahead (I don't have that …
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Institute: Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Center, Pune Mentors: Dr. Sanjay Desai Duration: 6 months No. of seats: At my time there were 2 seats (I did fellowship from dec-2018 to May-2019 ). Currently there are 2 +1 seats available (2 seats through exam and 1 paid seat is for foreign candidates. If a foreign candidate is not available, …
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I have been working in Kuwait for the past 5 years in one of the most reputed oil companies in the world. It wasn’t a planned move and just happened out of the blue. After my post-graduation, I worked as a consultant Radiologist in India for 4 years during which I gave my FRCR step …
Earlier this year, Tata Memorial Hospital held a very frank and interesting positive discussion on cut practice in medicine, and how a young doctor can establish a successful practice without resorting to giving cuts. Dr Anirudh Malpani, IVF Specialist and a prominent physician and entrepreneur, shared his views on the Cut Practice and how to …
Duration: One year fellowship in Pediatric Radiology Bond: Applicable only in case of discontinuity of the Fellowship mid-way. The fellows will be on contract service for a period of one year and will be required to execute an agreement and undertaking (except sponsored category). Any candidate who joins Fellowship/ Post doctoral Fellowship course and leaves the course …
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