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Goals & Objectives
The educational program in the specialty of vascular interventional radiology is organized to provide comprehensive, full-time training and experience in the evaluation and management of patients requiring imaging-guided diagnostic vascular and interventional procedures and a supervised experience in the performance of imaging-guided diagnostic methods of treating disease. Vascular interventional procedures are guided by a number of imaging modalities including fluoroscopy, angiography, computed tomography, ultrasound and in rare circumstances MRI and radionuclide scintigraphy. Our program is structured to enhance the trainee's knowledge of the application of all forms of imaging to the performance and interpretation of vascular and interventional procedures.
In addition, the program is structured to enhance the trainee's knowledge of the signs and symptoms of disorders amenable to diagnosis and/or treatment by interventional radiological techniques. An understanding of the symptoms, as well as the pathophysiology and natural history of the disorders is fostered. The trainee will know the indications and contraindications to vascular and interventional procedures, as well as understand the medical and surgical alternatives to those procedures. The trainee will become skilled in the technical aspects of percutaneous procedures and will develop a complete understanding of the imaging methods used to guide the percutaneous procedures. The fundamentals of radiation physics, radiation biology and radiation protection will be reviewed during the vascular interventional training experience.
In addition, training will provide opportunities for research in the realm of interventional radiology.