Abstract No. 466 Review of clinical integration in interventional radiology residency program block schedules

Abstract Background Diagnostic radiology residency programs pursuits as main objectives of the development of diagnostic capabilities and written communication skills to answer clinicians’ questions of referring clinicians. There has been also an increasing focus on competencies, rather than just education inputs. Then, to show ongoing professional development is necessary for a system to assess and document resident’s competence in these areas. Therefore, we propose the implementation of an informatics tool to objectively assess resident’s progress in developing diagnostics and reporting skills. We expect to found decreased preliminary report-final report variability within the course of each year of the residency program. Results We analyzed 12,162 evaluations from 32 residents (8 residents per year in a 4-year residency program) in a 7-month period. 73.96% of these evaluations belong to 2nd-year residents. We chose two indicators to study the evolution of evaluations: the total of discrepancies over the total of preliminary reports (excluding score 0) and the total of likely to be clinically significant discrepancies (scores 2b, 3b, and 4b) over the total of preliminary reports (excluding score 0). With the analysis of these two indicators over the evaluations of 2nd-year residents, we found a slight decrease in the value of the first indicator and relative stable behavior of the second one. Conclusions This tool is useful for objective assessment of reporting skill of radiology residents. It can provide an opportunity for continuing medical education with case-based learning from those cases with clinically significant discrepancies between the preliminary and the final report.

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Expanded Scope of Practice Fellowships for Radiologists: a Survey of Interest Amongst Current Canadian Radiology Residents

10.1101/626770 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph J Barfett ◽

Errol Colak ◽

Christopher U Smith ◽

Paraskevi Vlachou ◽

Aren Mnatzakanian ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emergency Medicine ◽

Interventional Radiology ◽

Sports Medicine ◽

Patient Management ◽

Fellowship Training ◽

Scope Of Practice ◽

Vascular Medicine ◽

Radiology Residency ◽

Radiology Residents ◽

Direct Management

AbstractRationale and ObjectivesRadiology residents acquire a diverse educational experience and skill set, including a general internship year, which may enable the direct management of patients. In order for radiology residents to define new scopes of practice, however, additional fellowship training may in certain instances be warranted.Materials and MethodsUsing the Canadian family medicine Enhanced Skills Program as a model, we conducted a Canada-wide survey of radiology residents to assess interest in additional fellowship training to expand their scope of practice.ResultsOur results indicate that a majority of residents (69.2%) would like to routinely see patients in clinic and more than half (52%) are willing to undergo an additional year of fellowship to enhance their skill set. The most popular choices for such fellowships were sports medicine (22.8%), emergency medicine (19.6%) and vascular medicine (18.5%). In addition, a majority (52.9%) of residents felt capable of offering incidentaloma clinics without additional training beyond their core radiology residency.ConclusionTraditional diagnostic and interventional radiology fellowships must be reconsidered to reflect the interests and capabilities of modern radiology trainees. Expansion of training options into the domain of direct patient management will likely prove popular among current residents.

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