Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Not applicable, Workforce, Education and training, Education, CT-Angiography, Interventional vascular, Interventional non-vascular, Interventional Radiology
Authors:
L. Matthews1, A. Pervez1, Y. Xu1, V. Gkiousias1, M. Persad 1, G. Makris2; 1London/UK, 2Oxford/UK
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-10345
Conclusion
Our survey of a self-motivated cohort of IR-event attendees offered a snapshot into the current levels of IR exposure and interest of medical students and junior doctors across the UK. Low exposure to IR at medical school, both objectively and subjectively, is negatively impacting students’ awareness, interest and available career advice in IR. Hence there is a critical need to increase its presence in the undergraduate curriculum as has been proposed by the BSIR in their IR Undergraduate Curriculum [13]. There is also demand for more dedicated online resources and extra-curricular events, indicating the need to improve publicity of existing materials as well as develop new materials. These have been shown to positively impact likelihood to pursue a career in IR, which is especially critical in the context of current workforce shortages and ever increasing demand for IR services.