IR as its own residency?

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I've heard rumors that IR may become its own residency apart from diagnostic rads. sort of how rad. onc. is. Can anyone lend any credibility to this or am I simpy dreaming?

 

[-Goose-]

I've heard rumors that IR may become its own residency apart from diagnostic rads. sort of how rad. onc. is. Can anyone lend any credibility to this or am I simpy dreaming?

I can lend no credibility, but there have been several posts here and on auntminnie.

Sounds pretty cool to someone like me possibly straddling the fence b/t IR and surgery cringing at the idea of the whole sitting in a dark room during the diagnostic years of a rads residency.

 

[Taurus]

I knew an upperclassman who matched into IR-focused rad residency at Northwestern.

I would rather go to a rad residency and then do an IR fellowship. IR's future is too uncertain so I would want a solid rad foundation.

 

[OHMAN0125]

I can lend no credibility, but there have been several posts here and on auntminnie.

Sounds pretty cool to someone like me possibly straddling the fence b/t IR and surgery cringing at the idea of the whole sitting in a dark room during the diagnostic years of a rads residency.

http://www.theabr.org/VIR_DIRECT.htm

You dont usually get certified in diagnostics though. And it's the same amount of years anyways. Better just do the regular route if i were you.

 

[-Goose-]

http://www.theabr.org/VIR_DIRECT.htm

You dont usually get certified in diagnostics though. And it's the same amount of years anyways. Better just do the regular route if i were you.

Interesting that it takes 6 years. No real advantage.

 

[genX]

attendings working at the programs that have the DIRECT path even discourage it saying that its mainly for people who started out in a speciality such as surgery for 2 years and wanted to switch out.

 

[f_w]

With the DIRECT pathway you are able (and required) to sit for the ABR exam. The only way you can get a CAQ in Vascular/Interventional is by being board certified in DR first. Diagnostic training is certainly shorter in DIRECT, as a result graduates might not be as comfortable covering the entire breadth of the diagnostic field.

Btw, there is a stand-alone IR residency. It is the 'new' vascular surgery training scheme: 3 years of general surgery, 2 years of IR, 1 year of vascular surgery.