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Hi,
After being on call for the whole weekend, I want to start a new thread. Here we go:
For many years there was only one pathway to become an Interventional Radiologist (IR): going through a Diagnostic Radiology residency and learn some basic skills and then applying for an IR fellowship for another year. This is called Traditional pathway.
You can find about available fellowships following this link: http://members.sirweb.org/members/APDIR/feldir/search.cfm or simply using FREIDA search engine from AMA.
Recently, as we know the new clinical model of IR practice was introduced and gained popularity. However, it was difficult to work around this concept with training IRs using Traditional pathway. As you can imagine most of those applicants had limited patient management experience after their internship and it was difficult for them to play this new role as clinicians and disease experts. Based on these facts the decision was made to create two new pathways for IR training:
1- DIRECT (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Enhanced Clinical Training) pathway: "The essential purpose of the pathway is to allow up to two years of clinical training to count toward the Diagnostic Radiology certificate and subspecialty VIR certificate." Training will take 6 years and you will be able to take the DR certification exam at the of your training and the IR certification exam 12 months after graduation.
You can get more information here: http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/DIRECTpathway.shtml
For a list of programs offering DIRECT pathway visit: http://theabr.org/ic/ic_vir/ic_vir_direct.html
2- Clinical pathway: To increase the IR impact on patient management and train disease experts as well as research oriented IRs, this new pathway offers an in-depth clinical curriculum and seven months of designated research rotation. In addition to 32 months of DR education including 3 months of IR, there is a 9-month mini-IR fellowship.
This is an incomplete list of programs offering Clinical pathway: http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/ClinicalPathwayInstitutions.shtml
Currently, we are contacting other radiology programs to provide a complete list.
Hope this helps,
Reza
Resources: www.sirweb.org and www.theabr.org
After being on call for the whole weekend, I want to start a new thread. Here we go:
For many years there was only one pathway to become an Interventional Radiologist (IR): going through a Diagnostic Radiology residency and learn some basic skills and then applying for an IR fellowship for another year. This is called Traditional pathway.
You can find about available fellowships following this link: http://members.sirweb.org/members/APDIR/feldir/search.cfm or simply using FREIDA search engine from AMA.
Recently, as we know the new clinical model of IR practice was introduced and gained popularity. However, it was difficult to work around this concept with training IRs using Traditional pathway. As you can imagine most of those applicants had limited patient management experience after their internship and it was difficult for them to play this new role as clinicians and disease experts. Based on these facts the decision was made to create two new pathways for IR training:
1- DIRECT (Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Enhanced Clinical Training) pathway: "The essential purpose of the pathway is to allow up to two years of clinical training to count toward the Diagnostic Radiology certificate and subspecialty VIR certificate." Training will take 6 years and you will be able to take the DR certification exam at the of your training and the IR certification exam 12 months after graduation.
You can get more information here: http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/DIRECTpathway.shtml
For a list of programs offering DIRECT pathway visit: http://theabr.org/ic/ic_vir/ic_vir_direct.html
2- Clinical pathway: To increase the IR impact on patient management and train disease experts as well as research oriented IRs, this new pathway offers an in-depth clinical curriculum and seven months of designated research rotation. In addition to 32 months of DR education including 3 months of IR, there is a 9-month mini-IR fellowship.
This is an incomplete list of programs offering Clinical pathway: http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/ClinicalPathwayInstitutions.shtml
Currently, we are contacting other radiology programs to provide a complete list.
Hope this helps,
Reza
Resources: www.sirweb.org and www.theabr.org