Cambridge Training Scheme | East of England

Cambridge radiology training is based in Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The five-year training programme is based mainly in Cambridge except for a six-month period where time is spent in a DGH setting (three months at West Suffolk Hospital and three months at Luton) and another three months spent at Royal Papworth Hospital, a specialist cardiothoracic centre.

Core Radiology training runs between ST1 and ST3. Trainees rotate between three-monthly modules which cover all the major sub-specialities (e.g. musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, breast, paediatrics). In the first year, six months is spent in the ultrasound department, learning skills to equip the trainee for on-calls.

Higher specialist training runs between ST4 and ST5, where subject to availability, trainees can choose which an area they would like to focus their time. This may include time spent at Royal Papworth Hospital. If Interventional Radiology is chosen a sixth year is spent in training.

There are several fellowships available to both internal and external candidates. These include a breast, interventional radiology and a neuro-interventional radiology. A cardiothoracic fellowship is available at Royal Papworth Hospital (which now shares our site).

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Academic Department of Radiology Cambridge

The Department of Academic Radiology is a leading and internationally competitive department undertaking innovative research in medical imaging, bringing together multidisciplinary teams of academic radiologists and imaging scientists with clinicians and scientists working across the Biomedical Imaging Campus, Clinical School and the University of Cambridge. The department is recognized for its active doctoral and post-doctoral research programme and it has graduate opportunities each year for students pursuing PhD, MD and MPhil degrees. Like the PhD, the one-year MPhil in Radiology is entirely research-based and all students are part of a team run by an academic lead active in one or more of the Department’s current research themes. Clinical Academic Training opportunities are available through the Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) and Academic Clinical Lectureship (ACL) pathways.

The department is an integral part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest biomedical cluster outside the US, and it has extensive collaborations with the NHS (through Addenbrooke’s, Rosie and Papworth Hospitals), research institutes within the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology), University departments (Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Engineering, Department of Astronomy), pharmaceutical companies (AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline) and imaging equipment manufacturers (GE, Siemens). Students and academic staff are supported through diverse funding initiatives by the NHS (National Institute for Health Research), University, local and national charities (Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK), Research Councils (Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and Industry.

State-of-the art imaging facilities, including 3T and 1.5T MRI scanners, one PET-CT and several CT scanners are available for clinical and translational research. A new 7T MRI and a PET/MR scanner are currently being installed to investigate the structural, functional and metabolic changes in dementia and cancer. Cambridge has one of the world’s first clinical hyperpolarizers for carbon-13 MRI for real-time metabolic imaging in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Our work is supported by the cyclotron and radiochemistry facilities in the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, Addenbrooke’s Nuclear Medicine department and the newly refurbished radiopharmacy. The cyclotron and radiochemistry facilities produce a wide range of radiotracers giving us extensive opportunities for innovative research in clinical imaging.

The following academics are currently supervising students whose research falls into their specialist areas:

Professor Fiona Gilbert (Breast Imaging, MRI, PET)
Professor Evis Sala (Cancer Imaging, Genitourinary Imaging, MRI, PET/CT, PET/MR)
Dr Ferdia Gallagher (Molecular Imaging, MRI, PET, Hyperpolarised MRI, Oncological Imaging, Hybrid Imaging)
Dr Tomasz Matys (Brain Tumour, Multiple Sclerosis Imaging)
Dr Tristan Barrett (Prostate cancer Imaging, Genito-urinary Radiology)

We welcome you to our website (http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/) and encourage you to contact us (camradiology@medschl.cam.ac.uk) if you are interested in undertaking training or researchh in Cambridge in medical imaging.

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