Medical research opportunities for residents in radiology are extremely favorable at the University at Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. While all areas are involved to some extent in research, the majority of the research is in the areas of Neuroradiology, Vascular/Interventional Radiology, and Breast Imaging.

The residents are required to initiate and complete at least one project in basic and/or clinical research. Help in selection, design, and implementation of these projects is available from the faculty and members of the departmental research committee. The department has several faculty members on the editorial boards of prominent radiology journals who also support resident research projects.  Residents are encouraged to prepare the results of their projects for presentation at regional or national radiology conferences as well as for articles submitted for publication in refereed journals. Each year $10,000 is available from the institution solely to fund resident research projects. Awards are made through the Graduate Medical Education Resident Research Sub-committee after evaluating all applications for merit. The radiology residents have superb opportunities to become part of a new research project and see it through to publication and/or presentation. Any resident presentation at a regional or national meeting will be fully funded by the department.