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IR Curriculum for Medical Students
Interventional radiology (IR) is one of the most innovative medical fields, combining minimally invasive image-guided procedures for a wide spectrum of conditions with clinical involvement, resulting in optimal patient care.
Due to its innovative nature, patient-centred treatment approach and the ever-increasing applications of interventional procedures, IR has become one of the most interesting career choices for medical students. Have a look at the CIRSE’s IR Curriculum for Medical Students describing the most important procedures performed by interventional radiologists.
CIRSE journals
CVIR
2025
- CIRSE Academy: Accredited, Curriculum-Driven E-Learning, 24/7
- The Use of Large Language Models in Scientific Manuscript Writing and Editing in Interventional Radiology
- Interventional Radiologists Must be Involved in the Management of Patients with Massive and Sub-massive Pulmonary Embolism
- Interventional Radiology Meets Pain Management: Cutting-Edge Techniques for Lasting Relief
- Interventional Radiology Reporting Standards and Checklist for Artificial Intelligence Research Evaluation (iCARE)
- Editors’ Medal 2025
- Balancing Professional Commitments and Personal Life for Women in Interventional Radiology
2024
- How Important is Low-Cost to the Overall Value of Interventional Radiology?
- How Artificial Intelligence will Reshape our Interventional Unit
- Interventional Radiology Should Establish Its Own Identity it Should be a Primary Specialty Separate from Diagnostic Radiology
- Global Statement Defining Interventional Radiology—Have We Reached the Tipping Point?
- Current Perspectives on Deep Venous Interventions: Challenges, Evidence, and Future Directions
- Transforming IR Training: A European Perspective
2023
- The History of the EBIR
- Medical Devices in Europe—Is Our Community Aware of What May Lie Ahead?
- Ambulatory Care in IR
- Bringing Interventional Radiology to Mars!
- Understanding Leadership and its Vital Role in the Growth of Interventional Radiology
- The CIRSE ETF Survey on International Mobility
- ChatGPT’s Potential Role in Interventional Radiology
2022
- Standards of Reporting—Another Hurdle to Get a Manuscript Accepted?
- Extra, Extra: Read all About it—This is TIPS Generation, Baby!
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Interventional Radiology Practice Worldwide: Results from a Global Survey
- Commentaries on locoregional challenges in IR: an international perspective
2021
- Ambulatory Care in IR: Time to Engage
- Unusual Left Periclavicular Cutaneous Lymphatic Fistula After Port Explantation Without Lymph Vessel Injury: Imaging and Interventional Treatment
- UK NICE Guidelines for EVAR: Cost Implications for Post-COVID Australian Public Health
- Medical Students’ Perspectives on IR: A European Survey from the European Trainee Forum (ETF)
- How to Measure/Calculate Radiation Dose in Patients?
- CVIR Special Issue on Radiation Protection
- Medical Students’ Perspectives on IR: A European Survey from the European Trainee Forum (ETF)
CVIR Endovascular articles
2024
- Getting it right is better than being right, right?
- The alternative for being an alternative
- Dealing with complications in interventional radiology
- Enhancing your practice: debriefing in interventional radiology
- Learning from medical errors
- Is it a complication or a consequence – a new perspective on adverse outcomes in Interventional Radiology
- Avoiding adverse events in interventional radiology – a systematic review on the instruments
- Complications in Interventional Radiology: the role of clinical governance and iterative hospital systems in quality improvement
2023
- Interventional radiology in woman’s health: room for improvement
- Fostering clinical practice in IR regardless of (sub) specialty status
- Implementation of lasting changes to sustainability in Interventional Radiology is a top-down governance challenge
- Sustainability within interventional radiology: opportunities and hurdles
2021
- Complication rates of percutaneous brachial artery puncture: effect of live ultrasound guidance
- Stop turning a blind eye!
- Prostate artery embolization: increasing self-referrals and awareness of treatment options
- Extra, Extra, read all about it!
- A call to action; an open letter to WHO from the interventional radiology community
- The rocky road to recognizing interventional radiology as a full clinical specialty
- Paediatric IR: the evidence for best practice is growing
- Retrieval of a dislodged porth catherer with inaccessible tips in a pediatric cancer patient