Fellow Travel Expenses Policy

UCSD Musculoskeletal Section

            We have limited funds to help cover part of the cost of attending a meeting. These funds are available only if you are presenting work that has been done during your fellowship.

Only current MSK radiology fellows and UCSD Radiology residents will be reimbursed for expenses related to presenting at a meeting.  Each resident is eligible for reimbursement for 2 meetings from the Radiology Department travel fund.  The MSK section will only pay for residents if the travel fund from the department has been depleted or is unavailable. Medical students will not be reimbursed with section funds.

            Fellows and residents will only be reimbursed for travel expenses for meetings at which they are presenting a paper.  Each fellow will be reimbursed for only one meeting during the year. If you have alternate sources of funding (e.g. research grant, commercial support), these must be used because our funding sources are limited.

Only meetings held in the United States and Canada will be covered. We will only reimburse expenses for major meetings (RSNA, Roentgen Ray, AUR, SMRM, SCD, ASBMR).  Do not assume any other meetings will be reimbursed.  If in doubt, check with Dr. Resnick to see if the meeting is reimbursable.

The work being presented must have been done here at UCSD/VA Medical Center.   You will not be reimbursed if you attend a meeting to present work done during your residency program at a different institution. Fellows who have graduated and are no longer in the section will not be reimbursed.   

            Reimbursement will cover economy class round-trip airfare, registration fees and 2 nights of hotel accommodation.  We will reimburse additional hotel stay if you are presenting more than one paper and need to stay longer.  Meals, taxi fares and incidental expenses will not be reimbursed.