Episode 19: Demystifying interventional radiology reimbursement | Guest: Kathy Krol
The CPT code may have certain required elements, and if you don’t put all of those in the report, you don’t get credit for doing the procedure. Or if the coders go ahead and code it, you could get aud...
22 Mars 202123min
Episode 18: IRs in focus | Guest: Derek West
The idea that we start a little earlier in getting our students acclimated to interventional radiology is going to be so important. And it already has made a difference—I think now, students have a mu...
23 Feb 202121min
Episode 17: The role of interventional radiology in stroke care | Guest: Eric Wang
I guess my take-home point is that by no means is staffing for a stroke program a small undertaking, so it really is important to have the support from the hospital as well as other medical specialtie...
9 Feb 202120min
Episode 16: 2020 year in review
At the very beginning of the pandemic, there was a big outpouring of support through social media outlets and other avenues online between training programs throughout the country. So it was kind of a...
6 Jan 202120min
Episode 15: Radiation safety and the interventional radiologist | Guest: Joseph Ring
If you follow good practices—you minimize the patient dose, you wear your protective clothing, you use the pull-down shields and you put the pull-down shields as close to the patient as you can—your e...
10 Nov 202021min
Episode 14: Addressing gender disparities in male-dominated medical specialties | Guest: Barbara Nickel Hamilton
In our specialty, the stereotypes are ... you have to be a certain height. So I hear from women trainees and aspiring interventionalists that, "You know, you're too small ... You can't reach things." ...
13 Okt 202016min
Episode 13: Implicit bias and health care disparities | Guest: P.J. Rochon
You see that it's appalling. What can you do, and what can we do as privileged human beings, to denounce this? To say that it's wrong? To not stand for it? To say, "You know what? That's not right and...
22 Sep 202020min
Episode 12: IRs in focus | Guest: Jeanne Laberge
"One of the big organizations that are groups of people/stakeholders that really change things, in terms of education for sure, are medical students, themselves .” —Jeanne M. Laberge, MD, FSIR Warren ...
1 Sep 202021min
