Who We Are and What We Can Become: An Analysis of Professional Identity Formation in IR

Keller, Eric J.; McGee, Katherine; Resnick, Scott A.; Trerotola, Scott O.; Valji, Karim; Johnson, Matthew S.; Collins, Jeremy D.; Vogelzang, Robert L.

doi:10.1016/j.jvir.2017.02.006

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“…Mentorship is a critical area of focus for both the professional and personal development of future interventional radiologists, as well as to grow the future leadership talent of IR (10). Women have reported a gap in mentorship and role models in academic medicine in general, which is likely even more pronounced in IR (11,12).…”

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Gender-Specific Factors Influencing Medical Students' Career Choice of IR

Matsumoto

Tullius

Navuluri

2019

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

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The authors conducted an anonymous survey to assess positive and negative factors that may affect medical students' decisions to pursue a career in interventional radiology (IR). The survey was sent to registrants for the Midwest IR Student Symposium in 2016 and/ or 2017, with a response rate of 13%; male and female responses were then compared. Female and male medical students shared similar rankings of factors affecting their decisions about choosing IR as a career, such as concern about lifestyle and excitement about therapeutic applications. Access to female IR mentors and diversification of the currently male-dominated workplace were important, gender-specific concerns.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender-Specific Factors Influencing Medical Students' Career Choice of IR

Matsumoto

Tullius

Navuluri

2019

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

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“…Although investigation into the ethical issues in our field has been limited in the past, work by Keller et al and his colleagues may help pave the way to greater wellness in our field in the future, through a better understanding of these challenges. Exploration of the ethics in IR can help give us a broader lens to see our practice through, while helping to address some of the issues lying at the heart of our burnout [7][8][9][10] .…”

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Strategies for Well-Being in Interventional Radiology

Farooq

Hamilton

2022

Can Assoc Radiol J

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Interventional radiologists (IRs) have a massive impact on their patients, communities, and healthcare at large. Yet, IRs have physical and emotional challenges that lead to a high rate of burnout compared with other medical specialties. A Medscape survey in 2013 showed a 37% burnout incidence among radiologists, which increased to 49% in 2015. This ranked radiology 7th out of 26 specialties with respect to burnout. Although the survey did not examine IR specifically, with the increasing demands on those in the profession, this number can only be expected to increase. A survey by Bundy et al demonstrated that interventional radiologists are in the upper range of burnout among physicians with 71.9% presenting with at least 1 manifestation of burnout. This is higher than that reported among surgeons or diagnostic radiologists. We must be proactive in addressing wellness in IR if we are to flourish both individually and as a group. The impact of suboptimal well-being in an IR goes beyond that of the individual, influencing patient care with ripple effects to society at large. At worst, severe burnout can lead to an early exit from medicine, with the cost of recruiting a replacement IR estimated at two to three times an annual physician salary. This is to say nothing of the experience, wisdom, and leadership that are lost when physicians burn out and drop out. Particularly in IR, where the work performed often improves the cost-effectiveness and quality of care, burnout is a threat to the physician workforce and healthcare at large. In this article, our goal is to share some elements of physician well-being and highlight opportunities to support well-being in IR.

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“…Indeed, one qualitative study of 16 VIR fellows found that though they were more likely to be clinically oriented than their predecessors, 81% still did not consider clinical care to extend beyond the periprocedural period, and fellows who went into private practice found their clinical initiatives unsupported. 9 Since VIRs refuse or are unable to provide comprehensive palliative care, perhaps one solution is for physicians already familiar with diagnostic and palliative care to develop skill in image-guided procedures. Radiologists do not own the X-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum.…”

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Whoever Does Image-Guided Palliative Care Needs to Be Properly Trained to Do So

Requarth

2021

AMA Journal of Ethics

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Vascular and interventional radiologists (VIRs) often offer image-guided palliative care procedures, despite having little training in clinical medicine, let alone in palliative medicine. Informed consent tends to be inadequate, as does postprocedure patient care. This article proposes that VIRs who perform image-guided palliative procedures be sufficiently trained in palliative care or that surgeons or internists subspecialized in palliative care be sufficiently trained to provide image-guided techniques.

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Who We Are and What We Can Become: An Analysis of Professional Identity Formation in IR

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Gender-Specific Factors Influencing Medical Students' Career Choice of IR

Gender-Specific Factors Influencing Medical Students' Career Choice of IR

Strategies for Well-Being in Interventional Radiology

Whoever Does Image-Guided Palliative Care Needs to Be Properly Trained to Do So

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