Interventional Radiology Residency Training at Yale

The Yale IR residency offers five Integrated IR Internship-Residency positions per year. We accept applications through ERAS/NRMP on a yearly basis. Residents who complete this program are well prepared for IR in both academic and private practice and can apply for dual diagnostic radiology/interventional radiology certification. The program expanded to five positions per year in 2026, for a total complement of 30 integrated residents (PGY 1 to 6), in addition to ESIR and independent IR residents.

Program Director: Fabian Laage Gaupp, MD
Associate Program Director: Juan Carlos Perez-Lozada
Assistant Program Director: Jessica Lee
Program Coordinator: Eve Goggins

Our amazing Program Coordinator, Eve Goggins, keeps the program running and is the first point of contact for applicants, sub-interns, and residents. For the full team, visit the Faculty & Staff page.

This is an integrated six-year program with five residents per year.

Fully integrated categorical program with an intern year consisting of 1 month of Interventional Radiology, 3 months of medicine (including Emergency Medicine, Hepatology, MICU, and Oncology), and 8 months of surgery (including Surgical Oncology, Vascular Surgery, Urology, and General Surgery).

Fully integrated into the Yale Diagnostic Radiology Residency with 3 months of Interventional Radiology per year.

Two dedicated IR years with additional rotations in MICU, Mammography, and night float. Elective opportunities include Neuro-IR, Pediatric IR, Global Outreach, and research rotations.

• Two residents per year
  
• One or two-year IR residency training
  
• Requires completion of an ACGME-accredited four-year DR program. ESIR is optional and accepted.

For further details, visit the IR Integrated and IR Independent application pages.

Yale IR offers a sub-internship for medical students interested in a career in interventional radiology. We host up to two sub-interns per month. Sub-interns work as part of the IR team, taking part in procedures, the consult service, clinic, and conferences alongside our residents and faculty. The rotation is an excellent way to get to know our program, residents, and faculty. Interested students are welcome to contact our Program Coordinator, Eve Goggins, and to review our Visiting IR Scholarships.

The program values comprehensive patient care responsibilities. The section has a consult service with an active clinic and admitting privileges. Trainees cover these services together with an attending and our advanced practice providers. The service admits its own patients and runs a busy outpatient clinic throughout the year. Residents graduating from the program are prepared for a career in clinical interventional radiology because of this focused and integrated patient care experience. Trainees participate in a variety of Yale IR specialty clinics, including interventional oncology, pediatric interventional radiology, women's health, men's health, the hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) clinic, and the vascular and lymphatic interventions clinic.

Yale IR continues to invest in its procedural environment. In 2026, the section opened a new CT room and a new Angio CT room, expanding our capacity for image-guided procedures and giving trainees hands-on experience with combined angiography and CT guidance for complex interventions.

Yale IR offers a unique research environment that spans basic, translational, and clinical science, including clinical trials. Our NIH-funded science focuses on topics such as drug delivery, novel molecular targeted imaging and therapeutics, artificial intelligence, and advanced intra-procedural navigation systems. We collaborate with partners in immunobiology, biomedical engineering, and biophysics and have advanced experimental imaging equipment at our disposal, including a dedicated state-of-the-art interventional angiography suite for research. Our group has a track record of fostering the careers of excellent IR trainees and junior faculty. Previous researchers and physician-scientists in IR have won numerous national and international research prizes, such as the RSNA Trainee Prize, the SIR Constantin Cope Award, the ECR Invest in the Youth award, and the prestigious PEO Foundation Award for Excellent Women in Science.

Yale IR is a leader in global IR, bringing minimally invasive treatment options to underserved populations worldwide. In collaboration with Emory University and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Yale IR established the first accredited IR training program in sub-Saharan Africa. Before this program began, there was not a single interventional radiologist in Tanzania, one of the most populous nations in East Africa, and many essential and life-saving procedures could not be performed. Since 2018, Yale IR has coordinated the deployment of numerous teaching teams to Tanzania for two-week trips, overseeing thousands of IR procedures ranging from simple biopsies to TACE and TIPS. Yale IR recognizes the important role minimally invasive treatments will play in improving medical care in underserved regions of the world and is committed to making these advances available to as many people as possible. This work has been supported by several institutional and national grants, including the RSNA Research & Education Foundation Derek Harwood-Nash International Scholar Grant. In 2023, the training program expanded to Uganda and Rwanda, improving access to IR for millions more people. Yale IR trainees can travel to East Africa for two-week electives during their training. For more information, visit the Yale IR Outreach Program page and follow Road2IR on X and Instagram.

On-call responsibilities include emergency coverage at the York Street and Saint Raphael campuses of Yale New Haven Hospital and the West Haven VA. Call responsibility begins early in training and grows throughout the residency.

Junior On-call (IR1 to IR3)

As part of the diagnostic radiology years, IR residents cover the consult service for a week at a time, including the following weekend. Junior residents are always paired with a senior resident (IR4 or IR5).

Senior On-call (IR4 and IR5)

Call is shared among the senior residents with a night float system. Weekend call alternates between trainees, with one trainee covering both Saturday and Sunday.