A medical or surgical rotation should include students on rounds with the team to see all radiographs (interventional or non-interventional) taken on each day of the medical student rotation on any service where radiographs are taken.

The radiologist should begin questioning of the interpretation of the radiographs with the medical student going first.

Dennis

Dennis Mazur

Engage them to clinical postings that will expose them to thorough hands on training

Hands on training is required

Electives.

Is it a must for students to be exposed to IR.? And should we improve this exposure?

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Here is an article I wrote in CVIR for increasing medical student exposure to IR: Article Increasing Medical Student Exposure to Interventional Radiology

IR centres are scarce in many parts of Africa, so medical educators should ensure that students get both elective postings in the few busy IR centers and some real time online/virtual training as well.

It seems to me that many small areas like IR are put aside for medical school education training because they (the students) do not seem to have enough time to learn about the common conditions/procedures and then have to do examinations.

There are many other of these areas which are cast aside - the most obvious ones I can think of are the majority of dermatology and ophthalmology. Any dermatologist or ophthalmologist would tell us their subject is very important but I can understand the argument that education/training even in common conditions might not be adequate as evident by the fact that students often might have difficulty with what we would consider easier questions eg causes of hyperkalaemia.