Instructor(s): Evan Lehrman

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. Students will learn unique and innovative treatment options available to patients in Interventional Radiology. Students will participate in morning rounds, inpatient consult service, outpatient clinic service, the angio suite, and conferences.

Instructor(s): Rajiv Sawhney

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships. This course will provide students with subspecialty experience in interventional radiology, including opportunities to recognize common diagnoses in interventional radiology practice, observe common procedures, and compose treatment plans.

Instructor(s): Sujal Nanavati, Vishal Kumar

This is a Bridges Curriculum Clinical Immersive Experience (CIEx), which provide medical students in Foundations 2 opportunities to broaden and enhance their professional development in health care settings different from those of their core clerkships.Students will learn unique and innovative treatment options available to patients in Interventional Radiology. Students will participate in morning rounds, inpatient consult service, outpatient clinic service, the angio suite, and conferences.

Instructor(s): Emily Webb

This course gives an overview of the practice of radiology intended for third year students considering it as a career. It provides an introduction to the reading room and procedure rooms across an array of radiology subspecialties: thoracic, abdominal, pediatric radiology, neuroradiology, musculoskeletal, women's imaging, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and interventional. (For guidance on which Radiology course(s) to take: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/education/medical-students/application).

Instructor(s): Emily Webb

This clinical visiting clerkship at an approved, non-UCSF institution provides the opportunity for learners to explore the role of radiology in clinical medicine, and to develop skill in performing select imaging work-ups and effective team and family-oriented communication. Enrollment requires the approval of the chairperson of the department and the dean.

Instructor(s): Emily Webb

This clinical visiting clerkship at an approved, non-UCSF institution provides the opportunity for learners to explore the role of radiology in clinical medicine, and to develop skill in performing select imaging work-ups and effective team and family-oriented communication. Enrollment requires the approval of the chairperson of the department and the dean.

Instructor(s): Emily Webb, Maya Vella

Didactic clerkship in radiology for fourth-year students. Students who have completed the radiology clerkship successfully can be expected to have elementary knowledge of: normal radiologic anatomy, radiologic appearances of common diseases, and an understanding of the rationale for ordering specific radiological in defined clinical situations. (For guidance on which Radiology course(s) to take: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/education/medical-students/application).

Instructor(s): Malcolm Anderson

This clerkship is designed to acquaint students with the use and indications of techniques in CT, MRI, ultrasound, as well as conventional radiological examination and fluoroscopy and their clinical use. This clerkship also provides an introduction to basic interpretation a primary care physician might need.

Instructor(s): Miles Conrad, Mark Wilson, Evan Lehrman, Vishal Kumar

Students will be introduced to the field of interventional radiology. This will include simulation of core ultrasound guided procedures (paracentesis, thoracentesis, venous access), and hands on patient procedures. He or she will spend 4 weeks working alongside the IR service resident, NP, and attending to diagnose, treat, and care for patients with a variety of conditions in the oncology, trauma, critical care and hospital setting. A subfocus will be on neurointerventional interventions.

Instructor(s): Rajiv Sawhney

Participate on the interventional radiology team at the VA including: pre-procedure work-up, post-procedure monitoring, and scrub in on all cases. Procedures include diagnostic angiography, angioplasty/stent, embolization, thrombolysis, CT/ultrasound guided abscess drainage, chest tubes, biliary drainage, nephrostomy, percutaneous cholecystostomy, TIPS, central venous access, etc.

Instructor(s): Maya Vella, Emily Webb

Students observe the practice of radiology in the reading room with an emphasis on image interpretation, observing procedures, and viewing teaching files. May choose a specific subspecialty area of academic interest including: Abdominal, Cardiac & Pulmonary, Interventional, Musculoskeletal, Neuroradiology, Nuclear Medicine, Pediatrics, Ultrasound, or Women's Imaging. (For guidance on which Radiology course(s) to take: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/education/medical-students/application).

Instructor(s): Evan Lehrman

Students will have the opportunity to review the indications for Interventional Radiology procedures; perform patient histories and physical exams; discuss new and current patients with the IR team; scrub and assist the IR service resident, fellow, and attending; and have opportunity for pre- and post-procedural outpatient care in IR clinic. Students will follow patients with vascular, oncologic, hepatobiliary, gastrointestinal, gynecologic, and urologic conditions in ICU and hospital settings.

Instructor(s): Maya Vella, Emily Webb

A research project under the direction of a member of the faculty.

Instructor(s): Emily Webb

This course is intended for first-year and second-year medical students who are interested in medical imaging from a clinical or research perspective. Through weekly lectures by radiologists from the UCSF Department of Radiology, student will be introduced to the various specialties within the field of radiology; the fundamental theory, clinical utility, and limitations of each imaging modality; and, the most recent scientific advances in and future applications of medical imaging.

Instructor(s): Vishal Kumar, Evan Lehrman, Miles Conrad

This course is intended for first-year and second-year medical students who are interested in interventional radiology. Through lectures by interventional radiologists from the UCSF Department of Radiology, student will be introduced to the field of interventional radiology; the fundamental theory, clinical utility and limitations of the field; and the most recent scientific advances in and future applications of interventional radiology.

Instructor(s): Maya Vella, Emily Webb

Library research and directed reading under supervision of a member of the faculty with the approval of the chairperson of the department.