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IR Training and ST1 Recruitment
To view the letter from Dr Phil Haslam BSIR President to BSIR member please click here
European Curriculum and Syllabus for Interventional Radiology Third Edition
This curriculum provides a standardised interventional radiology training guideline that covers: objectives, learning methods, outcomes, supervision and assessment. It also includes a syllabus which aims to facilitate the development of the clinical and technical skills necessary to carry out safe and effective IR treatments.
The European Curriculum and Syllabus serves as the basis for the UEMS-CESMA-endorsed European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) Examination, which allows physicians who have followed the objectives of the curriculum and mastered the content of the syllabus to prove their professional competence.
This document was recently updated and approved as an ETR (European Training Requirement) for IR by the UEMS. The third edition of the European Curriculum and Syllabus for IR will serve as the basis for the EBIR exam from the March 2024 examination onwards and can be found here.
The second edition will remain the basis until the October 2023 examination and can be found here.
ST1 IR Recruitment
Dear BSIR member,
You will hopefully be aware that prospective radiology trainees can preference a CR(I) post ie ST1 IR training post.
Some training schemes are not making this widely known.
I would like to strongly encourage you all to speak to your TPDs and HOS and encourage them to put forward IR posts for ST1s and publicise this fact.
Access to IR badged ST1 posts is key to recruitment into IR. We must ensure this scheme succeeds!
This is a link to the RCR guidance on the process. Please circulate to anyone who may be interested.
Some key excerpts are below.
https://www.rcr.ac.uk/sites/de
From 2022, applicants to Clinical Radiology (CR) who have an early interest in Interventional Radiology (IR) will have the option to preference posts with an Interventional Radiology interest at the ST1 recruitment stage.
The ability to preference available posts opens following the interview process. At this point applicants will decide whether they wish to opt for the CR(I) pathway.
Thank you very much
Best wishes
Phil Haslam
President BSIR
VASCULAR SURGERY TRAINING A summary and guidance for radiology trainers & trainees 2021
GUIDANCE on TRAINING PROVISION in VASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES (To support the curricular requirements of vascular surgery trainees)
This document has been produced as a replacement for previous iteration dated September 2016 and is the result of the introduction of the 2021 versions of both the Interventional Radiology and Vascular Surgery curricula. Henceforth, use of the 2016 document should cease.
Click here to view.