RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICERS' UNIT

Radiology

The department provides a complete range of diagnostic radiology services to Christchurch Hospital, Burwood Hospital and Christchurch Women's Hospital on a 24 hour, seven day a week basis. The department is organized to provide secondary and tertiary radiology services to the people of Canterbury, and to a wider South Island population. A limited range of radiology service is provided to patients referred from general practitioners and private specialists.

The department is an established teaching and training centre with associations with the Christchurch School of Medicine, Christchurch College of Education, Royal Australasian College of Radiologists and clinical training agencies. It supports undergraduate and post-graduate medical training. It is responsible for specific training programs for radiology registrars, radiographers and sonographers. The department boasts an excellent pass rate for the RANZCR (College) examinations.

The department operates from a principal site at Christchurch Hospital with satellite sites at Christchurch Women’s Hospital and Burwood Hospital. The radiology service performs approximately 160,000 examinations per year.

We currently have 16 FTE radiologists, 14 FTE registrars, over 50 FTE radiographers and sonographers and 10 FTE nurses (FTE equals full-time equivalent). The department has all radiology modalities, excluding Nuclear Medicine which is currently a separate department within the Department of Medicine.

In June 2005, the first 64-slice multidetector CT scanner in New Zealand was installed. A full range of imaging techniques are performed including high level Cardiac CT and CT Colonography.

For further information please contact

Dr Adrian Balasingam, Supervisor of Registrar Training, telephone (64 3) 3640 640 x 80770

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) will be co-ordinating the National Radiology Registrar match and Selection Programme for 2008. If you have any enquiries concerning registrar training positions in Diagnostic Radiology commencing in December 2008 please contact Gail Le Claire, Executive Officer, RANZCR, PO Box 10 424, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone +64 4 472 6470 Fax +64 4 472 6474 nzbranch@ranzcr.org.nz or for more information or the College website www.ranzcr.edu.au