Clinical studyMaking the Case for Early Medical Student Education in Interventional Radiology: A Survey of 2nd-year Students in a Single U.S. Institution
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Materials and Methods
Sixty-five 2nd-year medical students, all of them members of the class of 2011 from a single U.S. institution, were surveyed about their opinions on IR before and after a 60-minute lecture introducing them to the field. These short multiple-choice surveys, of about five questions each, were designed to elucidate their core impressions of IR and whether they found introductions to IR at this early stage beneficial. Students' responses were anonymous. The lecture was presented as a part of a
Results
All 65 surveys, except one, were completely filled and all questions were answered. Sixty-one of the 65 students (94%) had some awareness about IR, with 11 students (17%) considering themselves “familiar” or “very familiar.” A third of the class (32.8%) gained their awareness via one or more of the following: direct interaction with interventional radiologists (n = 6, 9%), an occasional lecture in IR (n = 10, 15%), textbook or journal articles (n = 5, 8%), family in IR (n = 5, 8%), summer
Discussion
As IR continues to broaden its scope and visibility in the current healthcare landscape, practitioners continually raise concerns about the specialty's suboptimal visibility among other medical services and ongoing ‘turf battles’ over referrals (1, 2, 4). Concurrently, there is a growing shortage in the number of qualified interventional radiologists (1, 2, 3); in 2009, 51% of certified fellowship training programs were left with unfilled positions (5). There is an increasing need to establish
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