 I'm Dr. Sarah McAvoy, the Residency Program Director here at the University of Maryland, and on behalf of all of our faculty, I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you to our Radiation Oncology Residency Program. Our department is very close-knit, and we are committed to providing a high-quality training experience. During the course of your residency, you'll have the opportunity to work one-on-one with all of our faculty, many of whom are nationally and internationally recognized as experts within the field. We strive to produce residents who are very compassionate, well-rounded physicians with excellent clinical skills who are able to immediately go out and make an impact in the field and become leaders in Radiation Oncology. We offer an exceptionally diverse clinical experience, both at our main university campus as well as with our six affiliate community sites. You'll see patients over the course of your residency who have the most basic bread and butter cases, as well as the most complex re-radiation cases, and rest assured by the time that you graduate you'll feel comfortable managing all sorts of patients in every kind of malignancy. We are also privileged to have a very diverse patient population and work within a comprehensive cancer center that is very committed to addressing health disparities. Overall, about 65% of patients who are enrolled on clinical trial with us are minorities compared to about 16% nationally. One of the major strengths of training in our residency program will be that you will graduate with a good grasp of all of the latest treatment technologies and techniques. We have a wonderful Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Center. We also offer stereotactic radiation, both with linear accelerator-based as well as Gamma Knife. We have a brachytherapy program that is very high volume and handles a lot of regional referrals for complex, gynecologic, head and neck and GU malignancies. We additionally offer radioembolization for liver cancer, gamma pod for breast cancer and have a wonderful thermal therapy program as well. You can really rest assured by the time you graduate you'll have a good handle on all of the latest treatment technologies and feel prepared to handle patient care. As a leading academic center we're also poised to help you develop your own research interests. We offer a dedicated six month block as a PGY-4. We have great top-notch faculty mentorship within the department as well as the opportunity to collaborate with other specialists across the University of Maryland system. Our residents have historically been very successful in terms of publications and presentations during residency and more than 50% of our graduates go on to academic careers. Overall, our faculty are dedicated to helping you develop both personally as well as professionally. We'll be there with you every step of the way and are here to support you along the path of residency. Please feel free to visit our website which will offer some additional overviews of advantages of training here at the University of Maryland, but overall I just encourage you to apply so that we can really show you everything that we have to offer for you and your career here at the Department of Radiation Oncology. My name is Usman Zeki. I'm the Radiation Oncology Chief President here at the University of Maryland. There are a lot of things about a program that I really like. One of them is kind of the interaction that you have with the attendings here. Because you work so closely with them you end up having a lot of individualized teaching and education while at the same time getting to know them on a personal level. From a research standpoint we actually have a lot of exposure to research as early as your first year. You get six months of research during your PGY4 year and then you can take additional time to kind of wrap up anything you have during PGY5. And to that extent we actually had all of our residents submit and get accepted to ASSER 2020. Our department actually does a really good job in sponsoring us whenever we do have to present at any conferences which is always very helpful. My favorite aspect about our residency is actually the relationship between the residents themselves. We have a very close-knit, light-hearted group and we actually get together outside of work with impromptu hangouts as well as our annual friends giving. I know that my co-residents will always support me just like I will support them and it makes me very excited to come to work every day knowing that they're around. I'm very excited and happy to be here at University of Maryland for my residency and I hope that you'll reach out to us with any questions you may have.