Neuro IR

[halfwaycrooks]

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Anyone know residency programs that allow rotations in neuro IR?

 

[Derv]

Many will. Getting a neuro IR fellowship these days is more difficult coming out of radiology.

 

[irwarrior]

Most have Neuro IR elective time , especially for stroke training/carotid stenting/cerebral angiography.

See below, a document which breaks down the sites and IR sub specialties tab has those that offer neuro IR. Programs such as Brown give extensive neuro IR training and the IR trainees take stroke call.

 

[Roentgen59]

Could you repost or PM a link? It doesn’t show up and says not published.

 

[irwarrior]

If you go to rfs.sirweb.org


and then click the professional development link on the drop menu you will see the IR residency block schedules you will see those that give neuro ir on the subspecialties tab.

 

[TCOM12]

Don't do it. You'll thank me for the advice in 20 years.

 

[Roentgen59]

Don't do it. You'll thank me for the advice in 20 years.

Why? Care to elaborate?

 

[irwarrior]

With the advent of DAWN and DEFUSE 3, acute stroke intervention has truly blossomed and the need for 24 / 7 coverage is present. Many peripheral/body IR in the community are asked to help in the call pool . So more and more peripheral interventionalists are performing this. If you are pursuing interventional radiology as a career it is a surgical lifestyle and existence with a great deal of emergencies. The diagnostic radiologists have a much more predictable day usually 8 or 9 am to 5 pm. The clinical interventionalist may often have 12 hour days.

The interventionalists also have multiple emergencies that they have to attend to including GI bleeders, postpartum bleeding, DVT/PE treatments, abdominal abscesses, acute limb ischemia, cholecystitis, cholangitis, urosepsis, post surgical leaks and bleeds , clotted dialysis access, and now acute stroke therapy. If you are not truly passionate about interventional therapy and willing to accept the lifestyle inherent with this you may be unhappy. If you would be ok with a surgical lifestyle and truly love minimally invasive medicine, the career choice would make more sense.

Here is a podcast about stroke treatments by a peripheral group of IR.


IR & Stroke Therapy: Interview with Dr. Sabeen Dhand by Sanna Herwald & Jagteshwar Sandhu | The Sound of IR Podcast

 

[halfwaycrooks]

If you go to rfs.sirweb.org


and then click the professional development link on the drop menu you will see the IR residency block schedules you will see those that give neuro ir on the subspecialties tab.

Exactly what I was looking for, thank you

 

[TCOM12]

Although lifestyle isn't everything, you essentially sacrifice the benefits of the schedule once you decide on IR. Yes, someone has to do it. But where do you want to be at 2:30 am on Tuesday night?

That's not to say that you won't have to do that in DR. But you can pick a job where you don't have to do that.

I think a lot of people would say that just being on pager call ruins the day, even if you don't get called in.