Library Resources
The department maintains a resident library resource room with the latest radiology texts and journals and high-speed computers with internet access.  A complete resident-compiled teaching film file, as well as CD-ROM and laser disc teaching files, provide an excellent review of both rare diseases and more common entities.  The 5,000 film American College of Radiology teaching file is included in our library.

Clinical Resources
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center has long been known for offering the most sophisticated medicine in Arkansas - much of which is found nowhere else in the state.  Our Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Center opened in 1986, and we are the only medical facility in Arkansas to offer Gamma Knife therapy.  A new radiation oncology facility, affiliated with the Central Arkansas Radiation Treatment Institute (CARTI) is housed on the UAMS campus.  The Breast Imaging Program at UAMS is among the world's leaders in several innovative techniques for detecting and treating breast cancer.  The UAMS/ACRC breast center just opened under the direction of Robert Fincher, MD.  An integral part of the breast program, Steven Harms, M.D., is conducting clinical trials of RODEO breast MRI and laser lumpectomy.  Recently, UAMS introduced the most technologically advanced PET scanner to the state of Arkansas and a new facility that will house the PET Center and Arkansas' first medical cyclotron is under construction.

Residents rotate among three hospitals with a total of 1200 beds.  The UAMS Medical Center, a 400-bed acute and referral facility, is the clinical teaching arm of the UAMS system and the hub of the medical center complex.  All medical, surgical, and psychiatric sub-specialties are represented.  There are extensive out-patient services, as well as a busy emergency department with a large volume of trauma.  Since 1996, U.S. News & World Report has listed our hospital as "One of America's Best" every year.  John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans' Hospital is a 505-bed general medical and surgical facility that is connected to the UAMS campus.  Arkansas Children's Hospital is a 300-bed tertiary referral care facility that is now the 6th largest children's hospital in the country.

The three hospitals maintain state-of-the-art equipment including six 1.5 MR scanners with MR angiography packages for clinical use and five CT scanners.  Nuclear Medicine equipment includes 5 Gamma cameras.  Numerous ultrasound units are available, and ultrasound equipment features color-flow doppler.  The PET center uses a state-of-the-art whole body PET scanner and we are building a new building to house two PET/CT scanners and our own on-campus medical cyclotron.  We also have a miniature PET scanner (called a microPET) for medical research.

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