Interventional radiographers use balloons, catheters, microcatheters, stents, therapeutic embolization or deliberately clogging up a blood vessel, on patients previously diagnosed as inoperable.
Interventional radiologists use state of the art technology to visualize and repair internal body areas previously accessible only through invasive surgery procedures. The use of use of balloons, catheters, microcatheters, stents, therapeutic embolization or deliberately clogging up a blood vessel, has offered new treatment options for patients previously diagnosed as inoperable. Radiologists are no longer the only specialists performing these techniques as cardiologists, surgeons and urologists are skilled practitioners in interventional radiology. Physicians continue their training in these specialties, learning new techniques after receiving their medical degree.
Medical University of South Carolina
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is the largest teaching hospital in South Carolina. MUSC was recently ranked among the top 100 best hospitals in the nation. The Department of Radiology and Radiological Science functions as an academic department within the College of Medicine. The Division of Interventional Radiology operates within the Department of Radiology and Radiological Science. Each year, eight residencies are made available in the radiology department. Competition is stiff for these prized positions. MUSC offers several Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and non-ACGME fellowships each year that include three interventional radiology fellowships.
Medical University of South Carolina
Interventional Radiology
25 Courtenay Dr., MUSC 226
Charleston, SC 29425
843-792-2083
www.musc.edu
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Over the past 25 years, interventional radiology at the University of Texas at MD Anderson has evolved as a subspecialty of diagnostic radiology. Interventional radiology has become an integral part of the MD Anderson Radiology Department, offering cutting-edge technology treatments with minimal invasion. The Interventional Radiology Fellowship program offers physicians the opportunity to learn through a one year program that serves in a three-hospital rotation within the Texas Medical Center.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Division of Diagnostic Imaging
1400 Pressler, Unit 1471
Houston, Texas 77030-3722
713-745-4794
www.mdanderson.org
Baylor College of Medicine
The Vascular Interventional Radiology Fellowship offers training in all aspects of diagnostic angiography, renal and biliary interventions, vascular interventions, including stent grafts, and more. Training sites include Ben Taub General Hospital, a world famous level I Trauma Center and The Methodist Hospital, which is a large nonprofit teaching campus with historical advances in cardiology and interventional radiology.
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-441
www.bcm.edu/radiology
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