Clinical Component

Navigating the Clinical Component

This role covers the full scope of breast imaging, from screening through diagnostics and image-guided procedures. Your daily mix shifts by site and team coverage, but the work centers on high-volume mammography reading paired with biopsies and other procedures. You work with modern equipment and a support team built to keep you focused on reads and procedures.

Clinical Services

  • Screening mammography
  • Diagnostic mammography
  • Breast ultrasound
  • Breast MRI, including MRI-guided biopsies
  • Image-guided breast procedures

Procedures

  • Core needle biopsy
  • Cyst aspiration
  • Preoperative needle localization
  • Stereotactic biopsy using a prone stereotactic table at the breast center
  • Breast MRI biopsies

Daily Workflow

Your daily assignment depends on the site and how the team is covering that day. At smaller sites, one radiologist typically handles diagnostics, procedures, and screening reads together across the day. At the larger breast center, one radiologist is assigned to procedures and another to diagnostics, with both reading screenings in between.

Typical daily volume falls around 50 to 60 RVUs, driven largely by screening reads. Procedure and diagnostic counts vary by assignment:

Assignment Procedures per Day Diagnostics per Day
Procedure-focused (breast center) 5 to 6 Screening reads in between
Combined diagnostics and procedures 2 to 3 10 to 12
Diagnostic-focused Up to 6 to 7 15 to 20
Remote diagnostic reading None Up to 20

Subspecialty Opportunity

The program is interested in expanding contrast-enhanced mammography. The equipment at some sites supports it and staff are capable, so a radiologist interested in that work could help restart the service. Breast MRI and MRI-guided biopsy work is also available for radiologists who want to use the full range of their training.

Technology

  • Hologic 3D mammography, the current standard
  • GE ultrasound machines
  • Prone stereotactic biopsy table at the breast center
  • Breast MRI units
  • AI-assisted mammography read support

EMR and Dictation

  • Currently PenRad, moving to Epic Mammo later this year
  • Dictation on Fluency, integrated with Epic. No change to dictation workflow with the platform transition

Call

This position has no call. No nights, no weekends.

Clinical Support

  • Nurse navigators assist with scheduling biopsies, biopsy results, and pathology tracking
  • A technologist and a nurse are present in the room during biopsies
  • Technologists are certified in the modalities they perform

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