The Association of Medical Colleges projects a shortage of 124,000 physicians by 2034. The demand for specialty physicians continues to outpace supply, especially in rural America. The causes of workforce shortages are multiple and multifaceted, but one can’t ignore the large impact that medical school debt has on the shortage—as well as the opportunity it offers for closing the gap.

In the audio version of "The debt question: How medical school debt relief options can benefit doctors and patients (Fall 2024 IR Quarterly), author Hope Racine details how working in small and rural practices can help reduce your student debt.

PLUS: Stacey Ruther, a medical student in Arizona, provides an introduction to both the topic and the article.

Related resources:

• Read the article
• Read other articles on small and rural practices

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"The procedures are not just vascular access and abscess drains and biopsies anymore. You know, the gamut of procedures that are done in pediatric now is ... across the board everything, practically, that is done in adult IR is done in pediatric IR. And I think you'd find that filing that niche and filing that need would make your pediatric specialists and your patients and families extremely satisfied." —James Donaldson, MD, the first president of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology

In this episode, part of the ongoing celebration of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 50th anniversary, host Sudhen B. Desai, MD, FSIR, speaks with James Donaldson, MD, the first president of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology, about the early days and growth of the subspecialty, what its future holds and more.

Related resources:

• Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology
• SIR Clinical Specialty Council (including Pediatric IR Council)
• SIR Pediatric Forum
• SIR 50th Anniversary homepage
• IR Quarterly pediatric IR supplement, "Tiny patients, big impact"

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This recording features audio versions of October 2024 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts:

• Mortality, Safety, and Effectiveness of Paclitaxel-Containing Balloons and Stents in the Femoropopliteal Artery: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials since 2018 Read
• Effect of Filtered Blood Return on Outcomes of Pulmonary Aspiration Thrombectomy Read
• The Predictive Value of Qanadli and Miller Index Scores in Patients with Intermediate-High–Risk and High-Risk Pulmonary Emboli Undergoing Aspiration Thrombectomy Read
• Imageable Radioembolization Microspheres for Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Interim Results from a First-in-Human Trial Read
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Guided Cryoablation of Prostate Cancer Lymph Node Metastasis Read
• Correlation of Ablation Volume with Renal Function Loss after Cryoablation in Solitary Functioning Kidneys Read
• Intra-arterial Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery Significantly Increases Penetration of Glass Microspheres in a Porcine Liver Tumor Model Read

JVIR and SIR thank all those who helped record this episode:

Host:
Manbir Singh Sandhu, University of California Riverside School of Medicine

Audio editor:
Sonya Choe, University of California Riverside School of Medicine

Abstract readers:

• Melissa Millett, MD, Southeast Health
• Sonya Choe, University of California Riverside School of Medicine
• Alena Khalil, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Andrew Brandser, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine
• Mark Oliinik, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
• Daniel Roh, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
• Millennie Chen, University of California Riverside School of Medicine

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