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The breast division hosts 10 comprehensive 1-year fellowship positions across the teaching hospitals. The training program is based on the combination of a large volume of hands on clinical work on all breast imaging modalities, average and high risk screening, training in interventional breast procedures, didactic lectures organized centrally through the program, hospital-based breast imaging and radiologic-pathologic correlation rounds, access to a large variety of interesting cases, elective research projects in breast imaging and exposure to a tertiary level multidisciplinary experience in management of breast diseases.

While three months of Breast Imaging are standard during residency training, a fourth rotation can be arranged as an elective month during the final year to enhance the resident's technical and interpretive skills. Resident Training: The educational goals provide the resident with objectives appropriate to their level of training. Soloway Breast Rapid Diagnostic Unit, Odette cancer centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Peter Giligan Centre of Women’s Cancers at Women’s College Hospital.

Marvelle Koffler Breast Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Gattuso Rapid Diagnostic Centre at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

These centers are breast assessment sites within the program offering comprehensive screening and diagnostic services not only to the Toronto central regional cancer program but also providing tertiary care to a wide catchment area across the province.Īll hospitals host a dedicated breast center that provide rapid access to care one stop workup and integrate all aspects of breast care: detection, diagnosis, counselling and treatment.

The combined case load per year amongst these centers is over 80,000 breast imaging studies (mammograms and breast ultrasound), over 5000 breast MRI and approximately 6000 interventional procedures (wire localizations, I-125 seed localizations, Magseed localization, vacuum assisted stereotactic biopsies, cyst aspirations, core/FNA breast biopsies and MRI guided biopsies and localizations).Īll the affiliated hospitals are sites of the provincial OBSP average and high risk screening program managed by Ontario Health maintaining high screening quality and compliance with program requirements. Michael's Hospital (SMH), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), Women's College Hospital (WCH), and the University Health Network (UHN - Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre). The Division of Breast Imaging is composed of faculty members representing all adult teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Toronto: Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH), St.