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I have just got accepted into my program and don't start till May, but I have been a Radiologic Technologist for 5 years so I have some insight. 

 

If you can find the Vascular Lab or the Cardiac Cath Lab of any of the hospitals you have access to, wander in there and ask for the physician(s). I find that a lot of the time people are looking for the 'IR department' - which may not exist in that form, because the radiologists split themselves between the diagnostic and the interventional and tend to have offices in diagnostic radiology reading rooms, but perform the procedures in the labs. 

 

I am fortunate enough to have good relationships with the radiologists that I have worked with for the past 5 years, and have shadowed them extensively. I have also shadowed their PAs and NPs, and will be rotating through there on my electives. 

 

Good luck!

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Can you describe your experience?

Started the day updating a few H&Ps. Spent my time in IR suite, ultrasound, and "barium kitchen" (cystograms, esophagram, barium enema, HSGs, etc.). The PA did a ton of a procedures. PICC lines, tunneled ports, dialysis catheters, port removal, LPs, joint injections, bone marrow biopsies, paracentesis, thoracentesis. I also observed plenty of vascular cases (arteriograms w/ angioplasty, thrombolysis), TIPS procedure, Denver catheter placement, Nephrostomy tubes, J tubes, G tubes.

Great experience. I also spent some time with residents to learn how to interpret CTs and X-rays. Wasn't the most hands on rotation but I did get to do a handful or procedures here and there.

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Started the day updating a few H&Ps. Spent my time in IR suite, ultrasound, and "barium kitchen" (cystograms, esophagram, barium enema, HSGs, etc.). The PA did a ton of a procedures. PICC lines, tunneled ports, dialysis catheters, port removal, LPs, joint injections, bone marrow biopsies, paracentesis, thoracentesis. I also observed plenty of vascular cases (arteriograms w/ angioplasty, thrombolysis), TIPS procedure, Denver catheter placement, Nephrostomy tubes, J tubes, G tubes.

Great experience. I also spent some time with residents to learn how to interpret CTs and X-rays. Wasn't the most hands on rotation but I did get to do a handful or procedures here and there.

 

Thanks! Was there only 1 PA on staff? Do you know if it would be difficult to land an IR job as a new grad? Thanks for the info

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