Michigan IR vs Hopkins DR

[Radiologyreviews2015]

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I definitely want to do IR. Top 10 DR vs Top 5 DR. Ann Arbor vs Baltimore. Clinical pathway with surgery heavy intern year but resulting in great clinical interventionalist vs Cusher intern year, less surgery/IR months but still a good interventionalist. Guaranteed IR and DR training vs DR training and probably guaranteed IR fellowship/ESIR.

I can only rank one program #1.

 

[Radiologyreviews2015]

I'm not applying IR, but if I was I think I'd take the guarantee. Ranking you radiology training based on how cushy your intern year is/isn't seems like a bad idea. It's one (relatively inconsequential) year of your career.

 

[chronicidal]

go with wael saad

 

[Radiologyreviews2015]

go with wael saad

Who is Wael Saad? And why does he tip the scale so heavily for Michigan?

 

[Radiologyreviews2015]

Who is Wael Saad? And why does he tip the scale so heavily for Michigan?

He's the director of VIR at Michigan, ex UVA VIR Fellowship PD along with some leadership in SIR. I think it tips the scale for Michigan IR pathway if you're want to do IR.

 

[irwarrior]

Michigan is slowly becoming an IR training powerhouse. They have developed a well integrated IR pathway modeling the UVA pathway. They cover the breadth of pathology including vascular disease (complex PAD and aortic interventions (including TEVAR and fenestrations ) and this is an important skill set that Johns Hopkins currently does not provide. So, if you are certain you want to do IR and geography is not an issue , you can not go wrong going to U of Michigan and getting trained by the likes of Dr. Saad, Dr. Disika and Dr. Williams.

 

[Radiologyreviews2015]

I definitely want to do IR. Top 10 DR vs Top 5 DR. Ann Arbor vs Baltimore. Clinical pathway with surgery heavy intern year but resulting in great clinical interventionalist vs Cusher intern year, less surgery/IR months but still a good interventionalist. Guaranteed IR and DR training vs DR training and probably guaranteed IR fellowship/ESIR.

I can only rank one program #1.

I don't know about Hopkins bc I didn't interview there, but most of the DR folks at Michigan stand all day at standing desks. Good culture that preps you for IR, haha.