On July 1, 2022, UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) established a new Emergency Radiology section to provide after-hours faculty coverage for imaging exams conducted between 5 pm and midnight. With the leadership of Mark Wilson, MD, ZSFG Chief of Radiology, faculty members Jason Talbott, MD, PhD, Shital Gandhi, MBBS, and Amrutha Ramachandran, MBBS, staff this new endeavor along with 8 per-diem faculty.
Prior to establishing this new section, on-call radiology residents reviewed and provided a preliminary interpretation of after-hours studies, with the attending radiologist doing a final read the following day. Our data show that historical next-day attending call-back rates were approximately 2.7% for patients discharged from the emergency department (or 1-2 exams per day). While the overall rate of call-backs was relatively low, this presented particular…
