Hi folks, just wondering if some of the IR's here could illuminate how the IR PP job hunting/recruiting works. What are the essential components that are looked for when hiring candidates at competitive practices: prestige/renown of training site, case logs, letters of recommendation, personal connections, connections of your attending, etc? Does going the integrated-IR vs independent-IR pathway make a difference? Just wanted to start getting a better idea of how this process works.
It depends on if you are joining a conventional DR practice where you just need to do "light" IR Biopsy,lines drains and emergency procedures such as cholecystostomy, nephrostomy, GI lbeeders etc.
They want someone with versatility and a fast reader who can be the "in house" radiologist and can help with the list, protocoling, arthrograms, LP, myelograms. The IR is sometimes just needed to maintain the "hospital contracts".
For any job networking and who you know always matter
If you are looking to develop a 100 pct VIR practice with clinics you need to be comfortable running a busy VIR clinic, marketing yourself to get referrals and comprehensively managing the disease and competing for referrals. So, make sure you get service line training including clinic time, non operative management where you are managing with pharmacologic and nonoperative options as needed. PAD (cilostazol/exercise for claudicants). statins, ace-i, antiplt, anticoagulant(compass/voyager) DM management.
This includes 1) PAD/CLI 2) BPH and PAE 3) Knee pain and GAE 4) Fibroids and UAE 5) Venous disease / Varicose veins/DVT/PE /IVC filter retrieval and placements 6) Pain palliative and spine (kyphoplasty/spinejack/rhizotomy/ cryoneurolysis etc).
Here procedural case logs on type of service line and complexity will be very helpful