Medical student explains how she knew interventional radiology was the right specialty for her
Choosing a specialty is one of the biggest decisions medical students ever make, and there’s no one way to do it. Stephanie K. Nguyen, a medical student at Temple University in Philadelphia, wrote a column about her experience choosing interventional radiology, breaking it down into the four considerations she used to make that decision.
The first consideration she lists is the specialty’s scope of practice.
“One of the biggest draws of interventional radiology for me is the scope of practice,” Nguyen wrote in her column, published online by Medscape. “Off the top of my head, I can't think of any place in the body on which an interventional radiologist does not work. This means that your day-to-day procedures can vary quite drastically.”
To read Nguyen’s full column, click the link below.
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