Program Overview & Details

Mission Statement

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is a not-for-profit acute care community hospital with the mission of serving the region with excellence, integrity, and compassion by providing superior health care to the Cottage Health community.

Our educational program is tailored to provide comprehensive training in all aspects of diagnostic and interventional radiology in preparing our graduates for the independent practice of radiology in a community setting similar to the community that this institution serves. Our radiology residency’s mission and program aims closely aligns with our institution’s mission.

Program Aims

• Train residents to enter the independent practice of radiology in both the inpatient and outpatient environments in a community setting.
• Prepare residents to pursue further subspecialty training.
• Teach residents to act as a radiology consultant.
• Model behavior to promote excellence in professionalism.

Accreditation

The Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program at SBCH is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The most recent continued accreditation was in January of 2023.

Admission

Four residents are accepted into the program through the National Resident Matching Program (Advanced Program S-62). At least one year of clinical training in a U.S. ACGME-accredited program is required prior to entry into the radiology residency program, and USMLE Step 3 must be completed prior to beginning radiology residency. The program supports J1 Visas.

Application to the program is made through Electronic Residency Application Service.

The following information/documentation is required with ERAS applications:

• 3 Letters of Recommendation
• US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), if foreign medical graduate

Application deadline is October 1.

Program Overview

Each year, residents take the In-Training Examination conducted by the American College of Radiology. This allows comparison of progress with other residents nationwide.

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Conferences

Noon conferences specifically for the radiology residents are provided by the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Radiology staff and supplemented by a variety of hospital conferences, including didactic lectures, tumor board, medical and surgical grand rounds, and subspecialty conferences in gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and pulmonary medicine, as well as critical-thinking skills conferences.

Department Equipment

General

• Four digital General Electric radiologic and fluoroscopic rooms
• Two dedicated digital angiography suites
• One additional digital multipurpose special procedures room
• Filmless picture archiving and communication system.

CT

• Two 64-slice GE HD 750
• One 256-slice GE Revolution
• One 64-slice GE Lightspeed VCT

MRI

• One GE 3 Tesla 750
• One GE HDx Signa 3T
• One Siemens Espree Wide-Bore 1.5T
• One Siemens Verio 3T

Mammography

• One Hologic Selenia Digital Mammography Suite

Ultrasound

• Three GE Logiq E9
• One Siemens Sequioa

X-Ray/Fluoroscopy

• Four Philips Digital X-Ray Machines (two with C-arm capability)

SBCH installed a picture archiving and communication system in 1998. The Radiology Department is entirely filmless.

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Faculty

Program Director: Bernard Chow, MD

• James M. Benzian, MD
  
• Stuart E. Braverman, MD
  
• Kenneth Daughters, MD
  
• Thomas C. Daughters, MD
  
• Elliot DeYoung, MBBS
• Steven Hartzman, MD
  
• Jennifer B. Kosek, MD
• Winifred Leung, MD
  
• Robert C. Maciel, MD
• William Pace, MD
  
• Manu Singh, MD
  
• Alejandro Soffici, MD
  
• Rob Taylor, MD
  
• Michael A. Trambert, MD
  
• J. Patrick Wheelock, MD
  
• John Yoon, MD