Lahey Clinic Program

Program Identity & Fit

Lahey Clinic's Diagnostic Radiology Residency is a community-academic hybrid program based at a Level I Trauma Center in Burlington, MA, newly affiliated with UMass Chan Medical School, offering subspecialty-rich training across neuroradiology, interventional, breast, MSK, abdominal and nuclear medicine services with only one fellow each in IR and breast imaging, granting residents outsized procedural and case ownership. The program emphasizes structured pathways beyond core training - ESIR, a combined DR/NM certification track, a Global Health Track building a radiology residency in Guyana, a Quality & Safety track with national meeting presentations, and active AI governance/validation work through ACR's ARCH-AI program - signaling a department invested in shaping subspecialized, system-level career interests rather than pure community generalists. Nearly all recent graduates pursue fellowship (body, MSK, neuro, IR, breast), reflecting a strong fellowship-oriented culture within an ACGME-accredited four-year framework, and required AIRP attendance plus daily multidisciplinary tumor boards underscore a structured, academically rigorous curriculum. The program appears to value residents who seek early clinical autonomy, teaching engagement with the new medical school, and a defined subspecialty or systems-oriented interest (quality, AI, or global health) rather than research-first physician-scientist trajectories.