European Certification for Endovascular Specialists

Applicants must be European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) holders and must have passed the EBIR at least two years prior to applying for this certification. During this time, the applicant must have been actively practicing interventional radiology and endovascular therapy.

The application form can be downloaded here.

The form will verify that the applicants meet the following criteria:

Clinical competency checklist

As part of the application form, the checklist details the applicants’ clinical competency and confirms that they have seen at least 200 patients in-clinic since successfully completing the EBIR examination.

Education

Applicants must have attended a minimum of three CIRSE Live or Online Educational Events in the 5 years prior to application. These include CIRSE Annual Congresses, suitable clinical device trainings of the European School for Interventional Radiology (ESIR), the European Conference on Embolotherapy (ET), and the European Conference on Complications in Interventional Radiology (ICCIR).

For each of the three events to count toward the requirement, applicants must have a registration for each event. All-Access Pass holders who plan to attend events virtually, must sign in as online users. This feature is available on the congress platform throughout the duration of the event and for 12 weeks thereafter.

Furthermore, applicants are required to have successfully completed at least three of the below listed CIRSE Academy Courses*:

• Acute and chronic mesenteric ischaemia
• Central venous access in children
• Clinical practice in endovascular intervention
• Crural revascularisation
• Endovascular therapy below the knee and pedal
• Endovascular treatment of pelvic congestion syndrome
• IR management of complications post-kidney transplantation
• Management of acute arterial gastro-intestinal haemorrhage
• Management of acute lower limb arterial occlusion
• Management of the failing haemodialysis access
• Management of upper extremity arterial disease
• Priapism
• Prostate artery embolization
• Specialist EVAR
• Specialist TEVAR
• Stroke thrombectomy
• Thoraco-abdominal aneurysms
• Treatment of acute deep vein thrombosis and chronic deep venous obstruction

*Access to the CIRSE Academy courses is granted via the All-Access Pass (fee-based). Pass holders also profit from digital access to CIRSE congresses, all CIRSE webinars and strongly reduced onsite fees for all CIRSE congresses for the year of purchase.

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Membership

Applicants must be CIRSE members in good standing.

Applicants are required to have completed at least 250 advanced IR procedures (in addition to the 150 vascular EBIR-required procedures, for a detailed list of the procedures please click here) as primary operator. These advanced procedures may be solely either venous or arterial, or a combination of both. This must be verified by the Authorized Representative as listed in the application form.

The required 250 procedures are to be completed since the applicant successfully passed the EBIR, and prior to application submission.

The application fee for the EBIR specialist certification is €250 until December 31, 2024. As of January 1, 2025 the fee will be €450.

Application review times can vary, but most applicants will be confirmed within six weeks of their application being submitted. In case the application form is not complete, applicants can expect to be contacted to provide the required information.