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I’m a member of a 100+ radiology group and we are in the final stages of creating a radiology residency program. I can tell you that it’s not that easy to just create such a program. To get accreditation, you must have enough volume and subspecialty radiologists for residents to rotate through, ie, body, chest, MSK, neuro, mammo, IR, peds, nucs, etc. An HCA hospital with 2-3 radiologists on-site won’t cut it. Even smaller radiology residencies usually have around 20 radiologists in the department. That’s part of the reason why you haven’t seen an explosion of radiology residency spots over the last 10 years.
But that's most tertiary care community hospitals, many of which don't have residencies. There is room for expansion, certainly.