Resident & Fellow Committees
Mission | To promote the growth and development of IR via the following initiatives:
- Member recruitment and application processing
- Match applicants to Committees and Service Lines
- RFS Classes – familiarize new members with RFS
- Collaborate with the Women in IR Committee to promote diversity
- Collaborate with SIR and SARC to develop a universal curriculum to serve as a national model
- Increase clinical focus on: stroke care, DVT, and CLI
- Wound Care Clinic Competition
Mission | To organize, coordinate, and advertise RFS activities
- Quarterly In-Training E-Newsletter with the Medical Student Council Communications Committee
- JVIR E-Bulletin – short content-specific supplements to JVIR publications in print
- YouTube Channel Maintenance
- Webinar & Journal Club Coordination
- In-Training Listserv Maintenance & Event Advertising
Mission | To collect and publish educational materials
- Journal Primers – quick review/summary of salient journal articles
- Survival Guides – concise guides on the most commonly performed IR procedures
- Collaborate with the Communications Committee to produce educational webinars
- Featured Cases – collected each year for our annual Case Competition at the SIR Annual Meeting
- Research Lecture Series
Mission | To oversee 7 service lines that work with the clinical education committee to produce education content related to different areas of IR practice
- Service lines: vascular diseases, IO, peds IR, neuro IR, pain management, GI/GU/reproductive IR, and critical care
- Coordinate creation of Webinars, Survival Guides, and Journal Primers
- Maintain web presence ranging from creating and updating Wikipedia pages, to posting on Student Doctor and Aunt Minnie.
- Clinical Discussions on SIR Connect
- Collaborate with SIR’s Communications Department to videotape patient stories regarding their experience with an IR procedures
Mission | To provide resources regarding training pathways, promoting the development of clinically oriented curricula
- Created Residency Application Advice page
- Create a universal curriculum for several IR-related rotations such as vascular surgery, surgical oncology, transplant, hepatology, medical oncology, ICU, nephrology, and OB/GYN
- Create a pre-rotation online module to best prepare trainees for their first IR rotation
- Plan to create guidebook detailing various IR/DR curricula, requirements, and common questions
- The Chair of this Committee can be contacted at irresidencytraining@gmail.com.
Mission | To promote political advocacy and knowledge of health policy and economics
- Promote IR to political leaders and candidates via various grassroots programs. Follow us on Twitter at @IRAdvocacyRFS and get involved!
- Participate in the SIR Grassroots Leadership Program in Washington DC.
- Collaborating with SIRPAC to encourage the reallocation of historically funded but unused residency positions for the new IR residencies
Mission | To promote the training and professional development of trainees interest in research
- Create programs to support medical students, residents, and fellows involved in medical research
- Provide resources to learn how to design a study, acquire funding, and compose quality publications
- Establish a community for future clinician-scientists in IR
Mission | To inspire, educate, and promote women in IR
- Promote diversity in IR
- Increase awareness of unique issues faced by women in IR
- Establish a supportive community for women interest in IR via mentorship, networking events, and recruitment
- Increase social media presence to inspire and attract more women to IR
Mission | To increase international collaboration and awareness of programs abroad
- Identify, communicate, and learn from best practices that international and US IR programs are using to engage, educate and integrate medical students and junior residents early in their training.
- Create an online resource to help international medical graduates to navigate the residency application process
- Create a centralized hub for international aid projects focusing on IR outreach
- Advocate for international medical graduates within SIR and RFS
- Expand RFS presence at foreign meetings.
Service Lines
Service Line | Chair |
Pain | Xin Li |
Pediatrics | Anne Sailer |
Interventional Oncology | Nicholas Pigg |
Neurointerventional | Jacob Fleming |
Anderson Webb | |
Vascular Diseases | Michael Liu |
Erik Yannone | |
GI/GU/Reproductive | Enio Perez |
Jimmy Epps | |
Critical Care | Vik Bhatnagar |
Dinh-Huy Nguyen | |
Medical Students | Rayan Abboud |
Siddhant Thukral (Reserves) |
Medical Student Committees
Mission | To organize, coordinate, and advertise MSC activities
- Quarterly In-Training E-Newsletter
- Help oversee Twitter and Facebook accounts as well as a presence on Auntie Minnie and Student Doctor Network
- Update Away Rotation spreadsheet resource
Mission | To develop and promote resources related to medical device development
- Webinars on biodesign
- Hackathon series
- Provide biodesign opportunities at local symposia
Mission | To create resources to support medical student IR education
- Common IR procedure videos
- Create IR lecture series for medical students
- Sound of IR Podcast
Mission | To support medical student research and education of advances in IR
- Future of IR articles
- Research spotlight articles
- Compilation of summer and year-long research programs
- Create a guide for getting involved in research as a student
Mission | To support and promote awareness of IR interest groups
- Encourage the creation of IR Inerest Groups
- Increase the number of local symposia for medical students
- Update IRIG map and upcoming symposia table
- Maintain guide for the creation of a new IR Interest Group
Mission | To promote a humanistic approach to IR
- Collect patient narratives and videos related to common IR procedures
- Promote and develop an emerging new professional identity within IR
- Create webinars and articles related to humanism in IR
Mission | To promote and increase diversity within IR for trainees as well as patients from underserved populations
- Promote diversity of trainees entering the field of Interventional Radiology
- Provide IR outreach initiatives & contribute to patient advocacy within underserved patient populations
- Collaborate with and support the efforts of the IR faculty-led D&I Advisory Group and SIR Recruitment Committee
Last updated 8/16/20