Interventional Radiologist or Radiologist with a inclinations towards intervention is a very handy resource especially at peripheral or community level health care centres and help the patient and clinicians in a variety of situations provided the radiologist is aware of 'what he can offer in a given situation'. The problem may be inserting a central line, local injections into joints to treat a painful condition or a nerve block or simple FNAC or aspiration.
Exposing the residents to such procedures, rather, exposing them to think out of the box in such situations and help them to develop an attitude in intervention ingrained is surely going to help patients at large.
What according to you can be done and how this can be achieved. Please share your views.
As i am working as a resident now, in my view we are here in pgims, rohtak are doing fnac and biopsy, pigtail drainage, aspiration etc..
The issue with current status in various tertiary centres are like there is no mentorship and the prof are not of interest in such small ir procedure like ptbd, PCN, joint injections, obs procedures.. and other thing is the budden of high patient load which is transferred to resident to complete the number rather than effective curriculum. The last one is no availability of vascular ir as there is no dsa
It's my personal comments nothing intended to knee down anyone.
I think exposure to IR should right from the medical student level. If we want to increase the outreach of IR its important that DR residents who take PG in radiology are actually interested in pursuing an IR fellowship in the future. Here is an article I wrote in CVIR for increasing medical student exposure to IR: Article Increasing Medical Student Exposure to Interventional Radiology
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