This course was designed as a subset of radiology, in which the graduates, under the direction of medical imaging, perform less invasive modern diagnostic and therapeutic measures. At the moment, this course, itself, has acquired numerous subsets.
AIMS:
1. To train knowledgeable, efficient, productive specialists who compassionately help diagnose and manage patients who require interventional radiologic measures.
2. To enhance this discipline scientifically to reach developed countries.
Specific Competencies and Skills (Basic & Advance)
CPR Types of angiography
Types of venography
Types of lymphography
Angioplasty
Embolization
Arterial stenting, including: carotid, abdominal aortic aneurysm, etc.
Inferior vena cava filter placement
Local chemotherapy through arterial injection.
Laser therapy, such as percutaneous discectomy, treatments of varicose veins
Using radio waves to treat tumors
Percutaneous gastrostomy
Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC)
Percutaneous biliary drainage
Image-guided abscess and fluid drainage
Cavernosography in the treatment of impotency
Image-guided biopsy of renal, liver, pulmonary, bone, and mediastinal masses and vertebrae