Medical University of South Carolina Program

Program Identity & Fit

MUSC's Diagnostic Radiology Residency is an academic, university-based program anchored in a high-acuity tertiary/quaternary environment, drawing on the state's only Level 1 trauma center, an NCI-designated cancer center (Hollings), the state's sole solid organ transplant program, and its top-ranked children's hospital. The 13-resident-per-class program is structured around fellowship-trained faculty and emphasizes broad clinical exposure across these specialized sites while building in flexibility for residents to pursue research, medical student teaching, and quality improvement work. Career outcomes are oriented toward fellowship training, with the program framing its graduates as competitive for both academic and private practice fellowship placement, reflecting a generalist-to-subspecialist pipeline rather than a narrow academic-only track. The program values holistic, well-rounded candidates—citing clerkship grades, honor society membership, leadership, volunteerism, and research/publications collectively—over any single metric, and explicitly welcomes applicants from non-AOA-granting schools.