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AI InsightMore lectures and direct clinicalexposure are paramount to their understanding of IR.
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Özet
PURPOSEThe number of female medical students has increased significantly in the last decade due toincreased gender diversity. However, the number of female doctors going into interventionalradiology (IR) does not reflect this trend on an international scale.METHODSA standardized set of questions was created looking into medical students’ demographics,awareness of IR, their general opinion, and whether they would consider IR as a potentialcareer path. One-hundred female medical students from the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Spain, and New Zealand were approached either directly or via an online survey platform. The students ranged from first to final year study of Medicine and were between 18 and30 years of age.RESULTSThe majority of medical students (68%) were unaware of what IR is and 98% denied havingteaching about IR in their university. Influential factors to choosing IR were more exposure toIR in medical school (15%), more options to allow family life (15%), direct training pathway toIR rather than via diagnostic radiology (13%), options of private practice (13%), and understanding more about radiation protection during pregnancy (12%).CONCLUSIONA lack of awareness about what IR is and misconceptions, particularly regarding radiationexposure during pregnancy, play an important role in discouraging entry into IR. Additionally, some of the concerns raised were directed at IR training pathway. Female IR consultantsshould also take leadership initiative to act as role models. More lectures and direct clinicalexposure are paramount to their understanding of IR.