Interventional Radiology via General Surgery

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Surgery Elective Clerkship In Interventional Radiology

Interventional Radiology is offered as a two week Surgery Clerkship Elective. Students who choose this elective will act like interns on our service. You will attend daily rounds, clinical conferences, see patients in clinic, and scrub in cases. While one can spend the entire brief two weeks at Vanderbilt University Hospital, there are opportunities to rotate through Monroe Carell, Jr. Children's Hospital and the Vein Clinic at One Hundred Oaks. The schedule is very flexible and designed to allow maximum exposure to the exciting field of Interventional Radiology!

 

Welcome Material

Welcome to Interventional Radiology. We look forward to your participation in our specialty. Here is some information to get started:

  1. Plan to arrive at the Interventional Radiology Reading Room at 7:15 am. We are located on the hall off the back of the Main radiology reading room on the first floor of the hospital. Go to the main radiology desk across from the elevators and head back toward the film library. Keep going into the reading room and head straight back through the door past the bathroom. Take a right and we are down on that hall. Identify yourself to the fellow.
  2. Wear Vanderbilt issue scrubs and your white coat.
  3. We will have rounds at 7:30 am.
  4. You will be doing procedures in a room with live x-rays. If you are pregnant, let us know so we can make the proper arrangements.
  5. If you get lost or need more information, please call 322-0840.

 

Unfortunately, you will only be able to spend two weeks with us. During this time, you will essentially be functioning as an intern. After your first day, you will be assigned 1-2 patients to present on rounds. The fellows and residents will help you get oriented and what information to present. You have very limited responsibilities, but I need you to:

  1. Be prompt in the morning and be ready to discuss your patients on rounds.
  2. Try to scrub into as many cases as possible. You are third tier on the totem pole, so try to find cases that the resident or fellow is not scrubbed into.
  3. If there is an unusual case (TIPS, Uterine artery embolization, etc.), try to read about the disease process or procedure ahead of time. We can give you resources to read.
  4. Relax and enjoy this time, we are an extremely broad specialty and there is no way you will see all the procedures we do or understand everything we do, so try to learn as much as you can.
  5. Ask questions! The only dumb question is the one that remains in your head.

 

In addition, there is an opportunity to visit two other sites that are staffed by our faculty. Students often choose to spend a day at Monro Carell, Jr. Children’s Hospital or our vein clinic at One Hundred Oaks. Let me know if this interests you and we will choose a day for you to visit.

 

Thanks for your interest; we look forward to meeting you.


Peter R. Bream, Jr., MD
Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine

 

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