Vascular Interventional Training
We provide progressively increasing responsibility, so that:
- PGY-1 residents perform primarily diagnostic arteriography and venography
- PGY-2 residents perform basic interventional procedures
- PGY-3 and -4 residents perform more complex intervention
- PGY-5 chief residents perform the most complex interventions, such as carotid stenting, and have opportunity to instruct junior residents in basic procedures.
During these rotations, training in vascular laboratory techniques and interpretation will also be conducted every day after the the interventional procedures (average three to four per day) are completed. We have found in our current training program, given the high volume of interventional procedures, that this schedule allows our fellows to become proficient in vascular duplex imaging, and to interpret sufficient studies (100 each in peripheral, venous, and cerebrovascular, plus abdominal and transcranial duplex) to qualify for the Registered Vascular Technologist examination.
Note also that a considerable volume of combined interventional and open procedures (such as endovascular aneurysm repair) occurs during the vascular surgery inpatient rotation.
