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Educational Goals and Objectives for the
Interventional Radiology Rotation
To provide the radiology resident
with sufficient hands on experience and lecture background to enable
him to safely perform standard interventional procedures and prepare
him for cerebral work or fellowship training should he so desire.
Resident Performance Evaluation
- Be able to explain procedure and
risks to patients and family and pre-procedural care/preparation.
- Understand contrast agents and be
able to select appropriate agent.
- Understand medications appropriate
to the subspecialty.
- Develop facility with Seldinger
technique and become facile with catheters and guidewires.
- Perform routine arteriograms.
- Be exposed to alternate access (axillary,
translumbar) and perform under supervision.
- Be adept at post intervention care
and follow-up.
- Develop and understanding of goals
in peripheral and visceral studies. Select appropriate study.
- Be familiar with the anatomy
commonly encountered in day to day interventional radiology.
- Be able to correlate the vascular
studies with other modalities.
- Understand indications and
techniques for various drainage procedures and biopsies under US and
CT guidance.
- Understand indications and
techniques of all vascular and nonvascular interventions.
Resident Responsibilities
- See patients the day/night before
their procedure and chart, check labs and EKG, obtain consent, write
pre-procedure notes and place orders.
- See all same day admit patients
for workup as above.
- Obtain consent for outpatient
procedures and check labs if applicable.
- Residents should arrive and be
ready to perform cases by 8:00.
- Check for patient's film jacket
and call for old studies if not present.
- Perform procedures with
supervision by Fellow/Attending.
- See in-house patients after all
diagnostic procedures for follow up and write note in chart later
that same day.
- Complete two angiography teaching
files per rotation and review them with an attending.
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