So You Want to Be an Interventional Radiologist, leaving the image reading in the dust in replace of hands-on operations. Well, not quite. This is the reality of interventional radiology.🩻 

Welcome to our next installment in So You Want to Be. In this series, we highlight a specific specialty within medicine to help you decide if it’s a good fit for you. If you want to vote in upcoming polls to decide what future specialties we cover, make sure to subscribe.

Interventional radiology involves using medical imaging technology to treat and sometimes diagnose conditions. The primary difference between DR and IR is that Diagnostic radiology primarily deals with diagnosing disease, whereas interventional radiology primarily deals with treating disease.

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TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
00:29 What Is an Interventional Radiologist?
02:03 Interventional Radiology vs Diagnostic Radiology
03:14 Community vs. Academic vs. Private Practice
04:32 General IR vs. Specialized IR
05:12 Common Misconceptions About Interventional Radiology
06:04 How to Become an Interventional Radiologist
07:24 Subspecialties Within Medical Research
08:04 What You’ll Love About Interventional Radiology
09:25 What You Won’t Love About Interventional Radiology
10:31 Should You Become an Interventional Radiologist?

LINKS FROM VIDEO:
Specialty Competitiveness Index https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical...
So You Want To Be Playlist    • So You Want to Be  
So You Want to Be a RADIOLOGIST [Ep. 16]    • So You Want to Be a RADIOLOGIST [Ep. 16]  

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