Residency in Radiation Oncology

The Department of Radiation Oncology earned ACGME accreditation status for its residency training program in 2005.

Our program participates in the Electronic Residency Application Service, ERAS, and the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).

We have a full class of eight residents through the 2012-13 academic year, but we are accepting applications until Oct. 31, 2011, for two PGY-2 positions. The positions are scheduled to match in March 2012, and have a start date of July 1, 2013. Interviews will be by invitation only on Saturday, December 3, 2011, and Saturday, January 14, 2012.

UT Southwestern Medical Center has a long history and commitment to resident training, with more than 70 currently accredited residency and fellowship programs operating this year. Affiliation agreements with the teaching hospitals of Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern University Hospitals (Zale Lipshy and St. Paul), and Children's Medical Center Dallas offer a wide variety of learning experiences for residents and fellows alike.

The Department is a part of the NCI-designated Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. Our offices include the 30,000-square-foot W. A. “Monty” and Tex Moncrief Radiation Oncology building, the Annette Simmons Stereotactic Treatment Center that houses the Gamma Knife and CyberKnife for cranial and extracranial stereotactic radiosurgery, and a newly added 16,000-square-foot facility near University Hospital-St. Paul.  The new facility houses technologies such as the Vero (for SBRT treatments), two additional linear accelerators for a total of seven, and an additional CT scanner.

Department faculty and staff, which includes 14 physicians and 12 medical physicists, treat approximately 150 patients a day..