This is my personal opinion and you may or may not agree.
Few facts about IR:
1- These days it has become almost a surgical type field. Its hours is worse than half of surgical fields. If you are really interested in it, always think about other surgical subspecialties.
2- Its practice model is totally diffrent in academic center and community. In academics it is high end procedures like TACE, Y 90, coiling of pulmonary AVM, ... In an average community hospital these are not done.
3- It has become a trash can of community hospitals. That is the reason fo its high job demand. Every community hospital need a trash can.
4- you can do high end IR in pp, but it is difficult to break into market controlled by cards and vasc surgeons. It is possible for sure, but with lots of energy and time. If you spend that energy in some other field, the reward will be much higher.
5- Its job market is good bacause first nobody wants to do it. Even previous IR people kiss it goodbye after 7-10 years and switch back to DR. Also every hospital needs trash can.
6- there are few only IR groups out there. Most jobs are 50-50 and u have to do DR. Usually these jobs are light IR, as most groups need somebody to do drains, biopsies and vasc access and partners don't want to do it. If you hate DR, don't do it.
7-There will always be demand for IR, the same as hospitalist, general surgeons or family doctors. With the new generation of hospitalists somebody should take care of minor procdures like thora, para, linea, tubes, .... So you will always have a job.
8- Hours are bad.think about it twice. You can do Urology, ENT, Plastics, Bariatrics, Ophtho, Mohs Surgery, even GI with much better hours and much less turf issues.
9- At the end of the day if you like it, do it with accepting all the pros and cons. But make sure you know all its aspects.
Good luck
Few facts about IR:
1- These days it has become almost a surgical type field. Its hours is worse than half of surgical fields. If you are really interested in it, always think about other surgical subspecialties.
2- Its practice model is totally diffrent in academic center and community. In academics it is high end procedures like TACE, Y 90, coiling of pulmonary AVM, ... In an average community hospital these are not done.
3- It has become a trash can of community hospitals. That is the reason fo its high job demand. Every community hospital need a trash can.
4- you can do high end IR in pp, but it is difficult to break into market controlled by cards and vasc surgeons. It is possible for sure, but with lots of energy and time. If you spend that energy in some other field, the reward will be much higher.
5- Its job market is good bacause first nobody wants to do it. Even previous IR people kiss it goodbye after 7-10 years and switch back to DR. Also every hospital needs trash can.
Its good job market does not mean anything per se,For example the job market for Primary care or hospitalist is much better than retinal surgeon.
6- there are few only IR groups out there. Most jobs are 50-50 and u have to do DR. Usually these jobs are light IR, as most groups need somebody to do drains, biopsies and vasc access and partners don't want to do it. If you hate DR, don't do it.
7-There will always be demand for IR, the same as hospitalist, general surgeons or family doctors. With the new generation of hospitalists somebody should take care of minor procdures like thora, para, linea, tubes, .... So you will always have a job.
8- Hours are bad.think about it twice. You can do Urology, ENT, Plastics, Bariatrics, Ophtho, Mohs Surgery, even GI with much better hours and much less turf issues.
9- At the end of the day if you like it, do it with accepting all the pros and cons. But make sure you know all its aspects.
Good luck
