Corewell Health Dearborn Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a small, community-based diagnostic radiology program at a 632-bed Level II Trauma teaching hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, historically operated by a private multi-specialty radiology practice (HBWS) since 1971 and academically linked to Wayne State University School of Medicine. The absence of fellows means residents gain direct, escalating hands-on procedural and interpretive responsibility rather than competing with fellow trainees for cases, with a senior-junior paired supervision model and daily staff-led read-outs. Research is a mandatory, structured component (quality initiative projects plus an annual January research night) rather than an elective pursuit, and the program has an established track record of placing graduates into competitive subspecialty fellowships and retaining others as staff physicians. The program markets itself explicitly as offering a "small program" intimacy combined with university-affiliated resources, valuing residents who thrive in a close-knit, graduated-autonomy training culture.