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CU Imaging Physics Residency Program (Coming Soon)

We are excited to share our CU Imaging Physics Residency Program with you. This site includes information about our program and faculty. Our comprehensive curriculum will ensure program graduates have the clinical knowledge, experience, and professional acumen to have a successful, fulfilling career as a clinical imaging medical physicist.

We have partnered with nationally-renown academic hospitals, including University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Colorado, both of which are located on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. Our clinical partnerships extend to other hospitals and medical clinics throughout the greater Denver Metro area.

Each of our program faculty is board-certified and has extensive teaching experience. We hold national leadership positions. Most importantly, our faculty are dedicated individuals who recognize the importance of maintaining a robust training environment and honoring the individual needs of each member of our division.

We invite you to explore our website, learn more about our training facilities, and get to know our outstanding faculty.

Imaging Physics Education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

The University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine is part of the Anschutz Medical Center Campus in Aurora, Colorado. The CU Department of Radiology, within the School of Medicine, has 125 full-time faculty, including 100 Radiologists (including thirty dedicated pediatric radiologists), three research scientists, and eight board-certified medical physicists. The department has a long history of excellence in education and houses two medical residency programs and nine physician fellowship training programs. Medical physics education has been an integral part of CU Radiology for 60 years, with Bill Hendee, Ph.D., beginning a medical physics fellowship in 1965. (Dr. Hendee later became faculty and then Chair of CU Radiology between 1976 and 1985.) Over the past several decades many notable medical physicists have trained and worked in the department. While the medical physics graduate education program dissolved in the early 2000s, faculty continued to advise graduate students and teach medical physics to undergraduate and graduate students, radiology residents, physician fellows, sonographers, and radiologic technologists. The Division of Radiological Sciences has thrived in recent years and has grown to a group of eight board-certified clinical medical physicists who support almost 450 pieces of medical imaging and nuclear medicine equipment, are active leaders in the broader medical physics community, and are eager to restore its position as a pillar of medical physics education through the establishment of an imaging physics residency program.

Program Faculty

We are nationally recognized experts with a strong history of national leadership roles. But that is not all we are. We are also proud parents, parental caregivers, musicians, lovers of the outdoors, motorcycle enthusiasts, and video game aficionados. We value hard work, responsibility, and integrity. We are committed to maintaining a work environment that is welcoming and respectful.

Rotation Schedule

Program Statistics

Salary and Benefits

First- and second-year resident stipends will be based on the PGY1 and PGY2 GME pay scale for Residents and Fellows at the University of Colorado, which is available at https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-medical-education/CUGME-benefits/stipends. Residents are eligible for the same benefits provided to GME trainees, including health, dental, and vision insurance as well as the CU retirement plan. Details can be found online at https://www.cu.edu/employee-services/benefits-wellness/gme-medical-interns-residents-and-subspecialty-fellows.

Resident Life in Colorado

How to Apply

Applicants to the CU Imaging Physics Residency Program must have Masters or Doctoral degree in medical physics from a CAMPEP-accredited program. Doctoral applicants with completion of a CAMPEP-accredited certificate program are also eligible to apply.

The CU Imaging Physics Residency Program participates in the MedPhys Match and collects applications through the AAPM MP-RAP. Prospective candidates will be required to submit all necessary items to the AAPM MP-RAP, including official transcripts, a personal statement describing their career goals and interest in medical physics, names of three references, and a curriculum vitae. The MP-RAP application deadline for the program can be found on the MP-RAP website.

Once applications are reviewed select candidates will be invited to screening interviews with some program faculty members. Final interview rounds will consist of interviews with the program director, associate program director, and all other program faculty, as well as a presentation given by the applicant. All interviews will be held virtually.

For more information, email the program at DXPhysicsResidency@cuanschutz.edu.

Accessibility

The CU Imaging Physics Residency Program complies with federal and state disability laws and will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please email our Program Coordinator, Andrea Garbrecht, at andrea.garbrecht@cuanschutz.edu.