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Residency Essentials

A self-paced online training and education program for residents that delivers uniform, high-quality education covering the breadth of IR in one curriculum.

Residents-in-Training Program Director

Curriculum

Residency Essentials covers everything core to IR presented in over 45 clinical topics and 4 requisite knowledge modules. Designed for residents in their last 2 years of IR residency, this program offers residents up-to-date educational material delivered in a program-specific portal in the SIR learning center that can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

Program directors can provide a uniform and comprehensive didactic curriculum as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) IR Residency program requirements (section IV.C.) and document and track an individual resident's performance and mastery of a subject area as required by the ACGME (section V.A.1).

Download curriculum ACGME IR Residency Program Requirements
The Fundamentals

The Fundamentals is a pre-requisite for Residency Essentials and sold at a separate fee. It should be purchased by IR or DR residents in their PGY 2–4 years. 

Fundamentals modules will include the following topics and be released all at once for residents to complete during their training years leading up to their final 2 years of IR training.

  • Clinical medicine
  • Intensive care medicine
  • Image-guided interventions
  • Imaging and anatomy

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Clinical Topics

Clinical modules will consist of 4–6 hours of material, including recorded didactic lectures and articles, pre- and post-assessments, and additional resources. Modules are released all at once for the residents to complete at their own pace or as assigned by their training programs.

  • Gastrointestinal
  • GU
  • Men's health
  • Neurological
  • Oncology
  • Pain and palliation
  • Pediatric
  • Vascular
  • Women's health
Requisite Knowledge

The Requisite Knowledge modules will include the following topics and be released all at once for residents to complete at their own pace.

  1. Business and law
  2. Systems
  3. Physician wellness and development
  4. Research and statistics

Program development

Addressing trainee education needs

Residency Essentials provides a universal curriculum that will enhance the breadth and consistency of residency training in accordance with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) guidelines and expand training in disease-specific areas not specifically addressed by ACGME.

To address this goal, a comprehensive curriculum was created. Primarily developed by APDIR members and subject matter experts familiar with ACGME requirements, the curriculum will provide all interventional radiology residents with well-rounded knowledge, from the essentials of clinical IR care to disease-specific treatments, research fundamentals, and the business and economics of medicine.

Benefits

Residency Essentials will drive the future of IR, delivering curated, consistent and standardized education for all residents, regardless of program pathway, to produce innovative, highly trained interventional radiologists.

Benefits for program directors

Clinical modules help fulfill the 2-year IR didactic ACGME requirements. Private reporting portal to view resident's progress.

Benefits for residents

Self-paced, comprehensive, well-rounded education in all aspects of IR. Prepares residents for certifying examinations.

Benefits for the specialty

Produces innovative, highly trained and competitive interventional radiology teams worldwide. Equivalent educational training through a universal curriculum.

Monitor resident engagement and success

Monitor resident engagement and success with reporting and tracking tools for two administrators.

Tailor program training content

Tailor your program's training content to align with modules released every 2 weeks.

Brand your portal

Brand your portal with your program's name and logo.

Upload program-specific documents

Upload program-specific documents and message all residents through the portal.

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Contributors

SIR would like to acknowledge and thank the volunteers who contributed their time and expertise to develop and build the Residency Essentials program.

Residency Essentials Module Development Workgroup

Jeffrey L. Weinstein, MD, FSIR

Chair

Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD, FSIR

Member

Parag J. Patel, MD, MS, FSIR

Member

 

IR Residency Curriculum Advisory Committee

Jeet Minocha, MD, FSIR

Chair

Parag J. Patel, MD, MS, FSIR

Chair

David Duncan, MD

Member

Kelvin Hong, MD, FSIR

Member

Joshua D. Kuban, MD

Member

Saher S. Sabri, MD, FSIR

Member

Jeffrey L. Weinstein, MD, FSIR

Member

Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD, FSIR

Member

 

Residency Essentials Module Developers

 

Eric Aaltonen, MD, MPH

Developer

Chaitanya Ahuja, MD

Developer

Rakesh Ahuja, MD

Resident co-developer

Joseph Albright, MD

Resident co-developer

Mohammed Al-Natour, MD

Developer

Mohammad Amarneh, MD

Developer

Zagum Bhatti, MD

Developer

Aaron Bogart, DO

Resident co-developer

Rhett Bouche, MD

Resident reviewer

Paul Brady, MD

Developer

Allene Burdette, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Drew Caplin, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Kate Carrato, MD

Resident co-developer

Gulraz Chaudry, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Jing Chen, MD, PhD

Resident co-developer

Alex Christie, MD

Resident co-developer

Jacob Cynamon, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Donna D'Souza, MD

Developer

David Duncan, MD

Resident co-developer

Scott Fleck, MD

Resident co-developer

Gretchen Foltz, MD

Developer

Parker Freels, MD

Resident co-developer

Antony Gayed, MD

Resident co-developer

Joseph Gemmete, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Christopher Grilli, DO

Developer

Andrew Gordon, MD, PhD

Resident co-developer

Francisco Gortes

Resident co-developer

Justin Guan, MD

Resident co-developer

Daniel Harwood, MD

Resident co-developer

Kartik Kansagra, MD

Resident co-developer

Claire Kaufman, MD

Developer

Joanna Kee-Sampson, MD

Developer

Lap-Heng Keung, MD

Resident reviewer

Saad Khan, MD

Resident co-developer

Alexander Kim, MD, FSIR 

Developer

John Kim, MD

Resident co-developer

Tammy Kim, MD

Resident co-developer

Paul Kiproff, MD

Developer

Mark Kleedehn, MD

Developer

Victor Kondray, MD

Resident co-developer

Joshua Kuban, MD

Developer

Vishal Kumar, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Jeane LaBerge, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Clay Li, MD

Resident co-developer

Lawrence Lin

Resident co-developer

Andrew Lipnik, MD

Developer

John Matson, MD

Resident co-developer

Gordon McLennan, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Mollie Meek, MD

Developer

Ryan Muller, MD

Developer

Sailen Naidu, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Bala Natarajan, MD

Developer

Rakesh Navuluri, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR 

Developer

Bradley Nowack, MD

Resident co-developer

Parag Patel, MD, MS, FSIR

Developer

Rina Petek

Resident co-developer

Rex Pillai, MD

Developer

William Pryor, MD

Resident co-developer

Kent Sato, MD, FSIR

Developer

Matthew Scheidt, MD

Developer

Daniel Scher, MD

Developer

Emily Sellers, MD

Resident co-developer

Raja Shaikh, MD

Developer

David Shin, MD

Developer

Stefan Soosman, MD

Resident co-developer

Nora Tabori, MD

Developer

Mari Tanaka, MD

Resident co-developer

Michael Tanious, MD

Resident co-developer

Jaron Tepper, MD

Resident co-developer

Jorge Tirado, MD

Resident co-developer

Kirubahara Vaheesan, MD

Developer

Rakesh Varma, MD, FSIR

Developer

Geogy Vatakencherry, MD, FSIR

Developer

Gregory T Walker, MD

Developer

Alex Wallace, MD

Resident co-developer

Kapil Wattamwar, MD

Resident co-developer

John Weaver, MD

Resident co-developer

Jeff Weinstein, MD, FSIR

Developer

Luke Wilkins, MD, FSIR

Developer

Kevin Williams, MD

Developer

Cayce Workman, MD

Resident co-developer

Nicholas Xiao, MD

Resident co-developer

Ricardo Yamada, MD

Developer

Lulu Zhang, MD

Developer
How to cite your contribution

Please use the below example on how to cite your contribution:

Module Developers* / Invited lecturer**:

[Name]. “[Module Title].” SIR Residency Essentials. Society of Interventional Radiology. [publication year]. sirweb.org/essentials.

Example:

  • Patel P. “PAD 1 (assessment and clinical principles).” SIR Residency Essentials. Society of Interventional Radiology. 2020. sirweb.org/essentials.
  • *Module developer – interventional radiology physician or physician-in-training who is a member of SIR and assisted in the development, review or editing of a module, or modules, in the Residency Essentials program.
  • **Invited lecturer – an invited expert on the topic to provide a lecture for inclusion in the SIR Residency Essentials, Fundamentals section.

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