INNOVATIVE NEW VASCULAR PROGRAMME COMBINES SURGERY AND RADIOLOGY

摘要

2008 looks set to be a year of major challenges for vascular surgery. Vascular surgeons could soon be training alongside other medical professionals including radiologists if a new curriculum and training programme, devised by the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, is accepted by the royal colleges and the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. The programme will combine surgica! experience with the interventionaf radiology needed to carry out endovascular procedures and aims to meet the increased demands of aneurysm screening.