David Grant Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

David Grant Medical Center's diagnostic radiology residency is a military graduate medical education program whose explicit mission is producing confident, competent general radiologists ready for deployment worldwide, not subspecialty-focused academicians. Training is a small, tight-knit cohort (three per year, twelve total) with 85% of experience at the Air Force medical center itself and structured outside rotations at UC Davis, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, and the mandatory ACR Institute of Radiologic Pathology course, giving broad general-radiology exposure across all core subspecialties every year rather than an early-narrowing track system. Research is required but modestly scaled - one scholarly project per resident with a dedicated PGY-3 block and funded conference travel for presenters, positioned as a professional-development expectation rather than a defining institutional pillar. The program explicitly frames its identity as delivering comprehensive general-radiology training "outside of a major academic institution," preparing graduates equally for general military practice and post-service subspecialty fellowship.