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Teaching IR to Medical Students: A Call to Action

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Interventional radiology (IR) has grown rapidly over the last 20 years and is now an essential component of modern medicine. Despite IR’s increasing penetration and reputation in healthcare systems, IR is poorly taught, if taught at all, in most medical schools. Medical students are the referrers of tomorrow and potential IR recruits and deserve to be taught IR by expert IRs. The lack of formal IR teaching curricula in many medical schools needs to be addressed urgently for the continued development and dissemination of, particularly acute, IR services throughout Europe. We call on IRs to take up the baton to teach IR to the next generation of doctors.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin, Ireland

    Aoife M. Lee

  2. Department of Interventional Radiology, Royal College of Surgeons, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin, Ireland

    Michael J. Lee

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Lee, A.M., Lee, M.J. Teaching IR to Medical Students: A Call to Action. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 41, 203–205 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-017-1824-9

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