Dartmouth- Hitchcock-Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Diagnostic Radiology program is an academic, university-affiliated residency at a large tertiary/quaternary medical center delivering subspecialty-level care to a rural New England catchment, distinguished by a low fellow-to-resident ratio that yields resident-centered, hands-on procedural and interpretive volume. The program has recently expanded from 3 to 6 DR residents/year under new chair leadership, offering an unusually flexible, resident-designed fourth year with tracks in global health, radiology leadership/business, informatics, clinician-educator pathway, community radiology, ESIR, and a 16-month Nuclear Radiology pathway. Scholarly activity is structurally supported (up to 12 weeks of protected research time, funded national meeting attendance, nomination to competitive academic leadership programs) though not framed as mandatory, and the program explicitly values resident input into curriculum and selection decisions. Outcomes emphasize a 100% ABR pass rate and strong subspecialty fellowship placement, with career preparation aimed at both academic and private-practice radiology.