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Final ID
603
Type
Educational Exhibit-Poster Only
Authors
N Voutsinas1, A Fischman2, N Tabori3, F Nowakowski3, R Lookstein4, E Kim5
Institutions
1Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Staten Island, NY, 2Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 3N/A, New York, NY, 4Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 5Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Purpose
Discussion of an Interventional Radiology (IR) curriculum for Third Year Medical Students (MS3)Expansion of the role of the medical students within the IR departmentProvide for MS3 to experience IR at an earlier point in their careers, presenting it as an alternative career to surgical sub-specialties.
Materials & Methods
Starting this year, IR transitions from a fellowship based specialty to residency based training. As a result, recruiting prospective applicants to the field must target medical students instead of residents. Furthermore, students must be ready to commit to a field that most are not exposed to until their fourth year. Moving this exposure to third year will encourage MS3 to choose IR as a career path.
Results
This year, our institution has started a two week selective for MS3 students taking place during their surgery clerkship block. This selective provides an alternative course for MS3 students to take instead of surgical subspecialties. While not required, many of the students will have already taken a diagnostic radiology course prior to the IR clerkship. During the rotation, students will learn imaging techniques for IR procedures, learn indications for basic IR procedures, learn to evaluate and manage patient in the outpatient setting, and learn the basic principles of radiation safety. Students will spend one day a week in clinic learning outpatient management of different areas of IR. For 3.5 days a week, students will assist fellows and residents in various IR procedures, preoperative preparation, and post procedure management. In order to learn IR indications, students will rotate once a week on inpatient consult service. MS3 will attend weekly didactic lectures, rounds on IR patients, and interdisciplinary conferences.
Conclusions
Exposing medical students to IR at an earlier point in their career will give them more time to consider IR as a potential field. By placing this third year selective within their surgical clerkship, students will be able to contrast the different styles and techniques between surgery and IR. The goal for this clerkship is to make IR a more integral part of the medical school curriculum and recruit more medical students to the field.
Final ID
603
Type
Educational Exhibit-Poster Only
Authors
N Voutsinas1, A Fischman2, N Tabori3, F Nowakowski3, R Lookstein4, E Kim5
Institutions
1Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Staten Island, NY, 2Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 3N/A, New York, NY, 4Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 5Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Purpose
Discussion of an Interventional Radiology (IR) curriculum for Third Year Medical Students (MS3)Expansion of the role of the medical students within the IR departmentProvide for MS3 to experience IR at an earlier point in their careers, presenting it as an alternative career to surgical sub-specialties.
Materials & Methods
Starting this year, IR transitions from a fellowship based specialty to residency based training. As a result, recruiting prospective applicants to the field must target medical students instead of residents. Furthermore, students must be ready to commit to a field that most are not exposed to until their fourth year. Moving this exposure to third year will encourage MS3 to choose IR as a career path.
Results
This year, our institution has started a two week selective for MS3 students taking place during their surgery clerkship block. This selective provides an alternative course for MS3 students to take instead of surgical subspecialties. While not required, many of the students will have already taken a diagnostic radiology course prior to the IR clerkship. During the rotation, students will learn imaging techniques for IR procedures, learn indications for basic IR procedures, learn to evaluate and manage patient in the outpatient setting, and learn the basic principles of radiation safety. Students will spend one day a week in clinic learning outpatient management of different areas of IR. For 3.5 days a week, students will assist fellows and residents in various IR procedures, preoperative preparation, and post procedure management. In order to learn IR indications, students will rotate once a week on inpatient consult service. MS3 will attend weekly didactic lectures, rounds on IR patients, and interdisciplinary conferences.
Conclusions
Exposing medical students to IR at an earlier point in their career will give them more time to consider IR as a potential field. By placing this third year selective within their surgical clerkship, students will be able to contrast the different styles and techniques between surgery and IR. The goal for this clerkship is to make IR a more integral part of the medical school curriculum and recruit more medical students to the field.