Clinical studyRenewing Focus on Resident Education: Increased Responsibility and Ownership in Interventional Radiology Rotations Improves the Educational Experience
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Training Program
The diagnostic radiology residency training program at our institution is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and has an average of 8 trainees per postgraduate year (PGY II-V, a total of 32 residents). This institution also has an ACGME-accredited fellowship in IR, which trains up to three fellows per year.
Before May 2006, the IR program was geared primarily toward training fellows. At the university hospital, fellows were responsible for
Results
From July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2009, a total of 40 residents rotated through IR for a total of 65 rotations. Of these 65 rotations, a completed evaluation was submitted for 56 rotations (response rate, 86.2%). A total of 15 evaluations (total 21 rotations; response rate, 71.4%) were available from the academic year 2005–2006.
The percentage of responses that evaluated each of the above four criteria were tallied and detailed below.
Discussion
As IR increasingly becomes mainstream and more patients are treated with image-guided minimally invasive procedures, concerns have been raised repeatedly among practitioners with regard to bolstering recruitment and preventing ”turf loss” (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). The rate of growth in number of cases per year continues to outstrip the growth in number of practitioners (4, 5, 7) . Meanwhile, each year not all fellowship positions are filled. In the most recent application cycle (2009),
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The abstract was presented at the 34th annual meeting (2009) for the Society of Interventional Radiology.
None of the authors have identified a conflict of interest.