Interventional Radiology Residency Training at Yale

The Yale IR residency offers three Integrated IR Internship-Residency positions per year. We are accepting 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. We currently have eighteen integrated residents (PGY 1-6) in addition to several ESIR and independent IR residents.

This is an integrated six year program with three Residents per year.

Fully integrated categorical program with intern year consisting of 4 months medicine (including Emergency Medicine, Hepatology, MICU, and Oncology), 7 months of surgery (including Surgical Oncology, Vascular Surgery, Urology, and General Surgery), and one month of Interventional Radiology.

Fully integrated into Yale Diagnostic Radiology Residency with 4-8 weeks of Interventional Radiology per year.

Two dedicated IR years with additional rotations in each of the following: MICU, Mammography, and night float. Elective opportunities include Neuro-IR, Peds IR, Global Outreach, and research rotations.

• 2 Residents total
• One or two-year IR Residency Training
• Requires completion of ACGME accredited four-year DR program - ESIR optional and accepted

For further details, visit the IR Integrated & Independent Residencies application info links

The program values comprehensive patient care responsibilities. The section has a consult service, with active clinic and admitting privileges. Trainees cover these services in conjunction with an attending and an advanced nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant. Several hundred patients per year are admitted to this service and there are over several thousand clinic visits each year. Residents graduating from the program are prepared for a career in clinical interventional radiology due to this focused and integrated patient care experience. Yale IR has a variety of specialty clinics trainees participate in, such as interventional oncology, pediatric interventional radiology, women’s health, men’s health, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia clinic, and the newly founded vascular and lymphatic interventions clinic.

Yale IR offers a unique research environment that encompasses the full gamut of 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 the most advanced experimental imaging equipment at our disposal, including a fully equipped state-of-the art Philips Allura Clarity C-Arm Interventional Suite. Our group has a track record of fostering careers of excellent IR trainees and junior faculty. Previous researchers and physician-scientists in IR won numerous national and international research prizes, such as the RSNA Trainee Prize, SIR Constantine Cope award, ECR Invest in Youth award and the prestigious PEO Foundation Award for Excellent Women in Science. Additional information can be found at the Yale Interventional Oncology Research Lab website.

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 has established the first accredited IR training program in sub-Saharan Africa. Before initiation of this training program there was not a single interventional radiologist in Tanzania, an East African nation with a population of nearly 60 million people. This means that many essential and life-saving procedures could not be performed. Yale IR has coordinated deployment over 100 teams to Tanzania for two-week teaching trips since 2018, overseeing several thousand 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, this training program was further expanded to Uganda and Rwanda, creating improved access to IR for another 50 million people. Yale IR trainees have the opportunity to participate and travel to East Africa for two-week electives during their training. For more information visit the Yale IR Outreach Program website and find us on Twitter and Instagram under “Road2IR". For more information visit the Yale IR Outreach Program website and on X, Facebook, 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 starts during first year, and evolves throughout the residency training.

Junior On-call

• IR1-IR3: As part of the diagnostic radiology rotation, IR residents cover the consult service for a week, including the following weekend. Junior residents are paired with a senior resident (IR4/IR5).

Senior On-call

• IR4/IR5: On-call is typically 1/8 with a night float system. Weekend call alternates between trainees with one trainee covering both Saturday and Sunday.