Inteventional neurology

[LoneSEAL]

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I just read that Interventional Neurology is a fellowship that has benn recently approved. Anybody know what this new field is about? It certainly sounds intriguing because the title seems to imply procedures.

 

[neurologist]

Yeah, there are "interventional" fellowships out there, but there is going to be a long and bloody battle between interventional and neuroradiologists who are protecting their lucrative procedural turf and any neurologists who try to muscle in on it. I would advise anyone who wants to do radiologic procedures to do a radiology residency; I suspect it will be a long time before neurologists are really accepted in this field (if ever).