 Hi, my name is Cynthia Chilico and I'm a Chief Resident of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Maryland. When looking for a residency program, University of Maryland exceeded all of my expectations as an institution, with internationally recognized faculty, diverse pathology, and ample opportunities for research and hands-on procedures. Another reason why I put University of Maryland at the top of my rank list was so that I could live in Baltimore. It's an affordable, fun city rich in culture, history, art, and the best seafood that you will ever have. Moreover, most of my family lives in Baltimore, and I was told throughout the application process that having a strong support system through residency is invaluable. What I didn't realize was that I would end up strengthening my support system and finding a second family within the radiology program at Maryland. With my first day in the reading room, when everything just seemed so foreign, the senior resident sensed my unfamiliarity and she sat me down and she was like, look, things can be pretty overwhelming in the first couple of weeks, so let's sit down and just look at a few studies together. And it's that type of fostering environment that really allowed me to build a strong foundational skill set during my first year. At the same time, I was building relationships and friendships with people that I actually wanted to hang out with outside of work. And we do. We look for any opportunity to celebrate, whether it's birthdays, engagements, baby showers, or other major life events like finishing your last week of call. My class has a super active group chat where we're constantly sharing interesting cases, resources, or daily grumbles. Oddly enough, we get just as excited about an interesting case of neuropsychoid as we do about planning our next group outing together. And I really think that that's what makes our residents as a whole so special. We encourage each other academically while at the same time we're there to support one another as we all strive to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Hi, my name is Siva. I'm one of the senior residents at University of Maryland in the Diagnostic Radiology Department. Going along with what Cynthia had said about great camaraderie and collegiality, our quaternary institution at University of Maryland also offers a wide breadth of pathology. Our main hospital at University of Maryland is a leading transplant institution which offers complex imaging studies throughout our training program here. Our Level 1 Trauma Hospital is a world-renowned trauma facility with trauma radiologists who are specialized in the field. Our trauma radiology attendings have written some of the seminal papers and books over the past few decades in the field. In addition to our complex inpatient studies, we also have a wide variety of outpatient facilities including our Veterans Affairs Hospital and our sister hospitals throughout Maryland including a new addition, PG Hospital. The PG Hospital addition has been a great addition to our emergency department and our subspecialty departments. We also have an incredible opportunity for research at this institution. A lot of our attendings and research faculty hold major NIH grants which allows residents to participate in leading research throughout our residency program here. The best part of all is we can train as a resident at one site. That's right. We get free parking and we can read all of our studies from one site so you don't have to go multiple places while you're a resident here. Hi, my name is Dr. Gene Judy from the Department of Radiology in the University of Maryland. I was in the Department of Radiology as a fellow in 2004 and I've had the opportunity to stay on as faculty for the last 15 years. I'm also a lecturer at the American Institute for Radiology Pathology as well as the American College of Radiology. And I wanted to talk from an attending perspective what we think about the program and essentially every attending enjoys what we do. Radiology is kind of our lifeblood and we enjoy teaching and that's why we enjoy the participation of the residents. In many respects the residents are more than just residents, they are our future colleagues and we want to make sure as our future colleagues that they get as much as they can from the program from their educational experience. Also in Converse, because of the constant innovation in radiology we're all essentially residents. We're all lifelong learners. So essentially we're all continuing our path of education. I've just done this a little bit longer so I'm going to teach you everything I've learned along the way. The most important thing about our resident program is we know that all residents come to the department with their own skills and talents that they've amassed throughout life. Our job is to fuse those talents with the medical training and radiology. And when you come to our website there are a host of additional material that we can see about the department, about the resident as well as resident life. But three pieces of advice that I like to give and from the students that I've mentored over the years. The first piece of advice is find an institution that essentially is going to challenge you. Challenge you and make sure you get the training that you need to be successful. The second piece of advice is find an environment. An environment that not only are going to learn a lot from not just within the hospital, within the department, but also in the community. You're a part of that community, you're going to be treating that community and you want to be, you want to understand that community because that's going to make you again the best person that you can be. And finally the most important thing I think of is when you look for an institution find an institution that's going to invest in you. Invest in you and invest in your potential. Bringing all those skills and talents you bring to the program incorporating all the education that we give to you that's going to make you the best radiologist that you can be. And granted I'm biased, but I believe that is exactly what we do at the University of Maryland.