University of Louisville School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

The University of Louisville Radiation Oncology residency is based at the Brown Cancer Center, an academic, university-affiliated program serving a complex, regionally underserved patient population in the Louisville urban and Appalachian catchment area. The department is a full NRG/RTOG member and a top national enroller in head and neck cancer trials, with additional investigator-initiated research in lung, breast, pancreatic, and liver malignancies and a distinctive focus on re-irradiation using SBRT and comparative physics research across treatment platforms (arc-based SBRT vs. robotic systems). Residents function as integral clinical operators rather than observers, gaining high procedural and disease-spectrum exposure tied to the region's underserved referral base, and the program explicitly prepares graduates for both academic and private practice careers. Faculty are described as diverse and highly sub-specialized, with a dedicated brachytherapy program and structured one- to three-month single-attending pairings that build early resident autonomy.