Image-Guided Intervention Workshop

Catalog description

This seminar will be offered to pre-clinical medical students interested in learning and practicing image guided procedures using interventional radiology training equipment. Image guided procedures lead to improved outcomes and decreased cost and increasingly used. The course will comprise of six sessions which include: basic US hands-on skills including scanning, probes, knobology; biopsy/FNA basics including breast biopsy; into to basic IR equipment; femoral artery access and suturing; lumbar puncture; arterial inventions and drains. Students may also get involved in research studies on procedural training.