NYU Grossman School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

NYU's four-year radiation oncology residency is an academically rigorous, university-based program built around three distinct clinical sites—Perlmutter Cancer Center, Tisch Hospital, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue—giving residents exposure to both a tertiary academic cancer center and a public safety-net hospital within the same training arc. Research is deeply embedded in the program's identity: residents receive a full protected year of nonclinical research time, and the department participates in the ABR Holman Research Pathway, an accelerated track reserved for residents with strong research backgrounds who commit substantially more time to basic or clinical science than to clinical training. The structured PGY-1 transitional year prerequisite, dedicated radiobiology/physics coursework, and multidisciplinary tumor board integration point to a program building physician-scientists and academically oriented radiation oncologists rather than solely community-practice clinicians. The program values residents who can navigate both a high-resource quaternary cancer center and an underserved public hospital population, translating that range into scholarly output.