Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Wake Forest's Diagnostic Radiology Residency is an academic, university-affiliated program embedded within a Level 1 trauma center offering comprehensive stroke, cancer, transplant, and pediatric services, generating high-acuity case complexity balanced by an extensive outpatient imaging network for bread-and-butter volume. The program's independent, tiered call system (building from ED/neuro CT coverage to interventional procedures) is its defining educational structure, designed to produce graduates confident in independent practice across academic or private settings. Research is well-resourced and actively mentored, with $5M+ in departmental NIH funding, collaboration with named institutional research centers, an optional 4-6 month R4 research elective, and resident-driven scholarly and entrepreneurial projects (e.g., patented devices, Casestacks.com), though it is presented as an opportunity rather than a strict requirement. The program offers six ACGME-accredited subspecialty fellowships in-house and values academically strong, self-directed residents who thrive in a collaborative, subspecialty-organized reading-room culture.