Does it matter what radiology elective is taken first?

[ttheshore]

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I am planning my 3rd year rotations right now and had a questions about radiology electives. I was planning on taking a radiology elective in 3rd year to see if I am interested in the field, but based on scheduling, I may only be able to take an interventional radiology elective.

Does it matter if I take an interventional radiology elective before a diagnostic? Will it make the elective more difficult for me to excel in? Also, would it be unlikely that I would get a feel for the field of diagnostic radiology at all from this elective?

I used the search function, but did not have any luck finding an answer to my question.
Thanks.

 

[davidjones]

The best thing is to do a general rads elective, where you can spend time in both DR and IR. Doing just an IR elective is more recommended for 4th years who already know their going into rads to do IR. Like you said, doing IR will absolutely not give you any insight into DR; most places will allow you to rotate, if not you can do a 2 week elective in DR and a 2 week elective in IR.