THE MEDICAL SCHOOL
 and
THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY

The Postgraduate Medical School in Hull was formally created in 1994, and now has Clinical Professors in the major disciplines, including cardiology, respiratory medicine, oncology, colorectal surgery, ENT and reproductive medicine.

The Hull-York Undergraduate Medical School had its first intake of students in September 2003. A considerable expansion in the number of academic staff has therefore taken place. The central role of imaging in medicine means that the undergraduate teaching will increasingly take place in the radiology departments and there are opportunities for more senior Radiology trainees to contribute to this teaching.

In December 1997 Professor L W Turnbull was appointed to the Yorkshire Cancer Research Foundation Chair in Radiology, and the Scientific Directorship of the Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations at Hull Royal Infirmary which was established in 1992.  The academic Department of Radiology has continued to pursue oncological applications of MR imaging and spectroscopy which currently include a major nationally and internationally respected programme into breast cancer research with close collaboration with the Departments of Academic Medicine, Surgery and the Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases.  Additional projects concentrate on prostate, uterine, brain and colorectal imaging as well as the development of mathematical models for accurately quantitating the uptake of MR contrast agents.  The Centre for MR Investigations currently employs a number of Physicists, a Biochemist, several research fellows and PhD students and is equipped with up-to-date personal computers, SUN, Allegro and Advantage Windows Workstations. Radiologists in training will be actively encouraged, if they express an interest in cross-sectional imaging, to become involved with the research team for a minimum of 6 months during their 4th or 5th years of training.