Vascular/Interventional Radiology Fellowships 2012/2013, Canada

July 17, 2010

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Job Description: This is a one year fellowship. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has 400 acute and 650 chronic care beds. The hospital is on the same site as the Odette Cancer Centre and the Reichmann Research Institute. Sunnybrook houses the largest regional trauma centre in Canada.

Vascular work includes:

* Diagnostic angiography (non-neuro)
* Angioplasty and stenting (iliofemoral, SVC and central veins, renal, mesenteric, hemodialysis grafts and fistulae, occasional subclavian artery)
* Endovascular aneurysm repair
* AV fistula/graft surveillance and intervention: thrombolysis, angioplasty, side-branch embolization
* Uterine artery embolization
* Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), transarterial embolization (TAE)
* Pharmacologic and mechanical thrombolysis, including lungs (PE), lower extremity veins (DVT), hemodialysis grafts and fistulae
* Caval filters
* Embolotherapy: trauma, pre-operative (renal cell carcinoma, bone metastases, etc.), AV fistula side-branches, gonadal veins (varicoceles, pelvic congestion)
* Transjugular liver biopsy
* TIPS
* Venous access: subcutaneous ports, dialysis lines, PIC lines, Hickman lines
* Endocrine stimulation studies and venous sampling (inferior petrosal sinus sampling, adrenal vein sampling, pancreatic stimulation, etc.)

Non-vascular work includes:

* Percutaneous vertebroplasty and osteoplasty
* Percutaneous nephrostomies
* Antegrade ureteric stents
* Percutaneous feeding tubes (gastrostomies [percutaneous and peroral], gastrojejunostomies, primary jejunostomies)
* Tumour ablation (thermal, chemical)
* Percutaneous biliary drains and stents
* Percutaneous cholecystostomies
* Esophageal stents for obstruction and TE fistula
* Celiac and splanchnic plexus neurolysis
* Cyst ablation
* Colorectal and duodenal stents
* Fallopian tube recanalization
* Intraperitoneal port insertions (for IP chemotherapy)
* Peritoneal dialysis catheter insertions
* Pleural intervention including tunneled pleural catheters
* Tunneled peritoneal catheters
* Abscess drains
* Biopsies

All non-neuro non-invasive cardiac and vascular imaging (CT and MR) is handled by the division. While the focus of this fellowship is invasive work, VIR fellows are also actively involved in reporting CTA and MRA.

Equipment:

* Angiography: Three suites (one Philips Allura and two Philips Integris units).
* CT: four multi-detector GE scanners (three 64 slice machines, one 4 slice machine).
* MR: three clinical MR scanners, (two GE 1.5 Tesla, one 3 Tesla). There are also two research GE MR units.

Eligibility

Fellowship candidates must have completed an accredited Radiology training program and be:

* Certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Diagnostic Imaging or
* American Board of Radiology certified/eligible or
* Certified with equivalent qualifications and
* Proficient in both written and spoken English.

Application Deadline 1September2010

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Scholarship Tags: 2012, Canada, Fellowship, Radiology, Science, Technology, Vascular