These types of procedures are exploding, but there's a lot of turf wars between vascular surgery, cardiac surgery and interventionalists (e.g. interventional ra

These types of procedures are exploding, but there's a lot of turf wars between vascular surgery, cardiac surgery and interventionalists (e.g. interventional radiologists, interventional cardiologists, and interventional neurologists). For vessels in the brain there are fellowships that accept neurologists, radiologists, and/or neurosurgeons: http://radiology.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=120 http://radiology.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=120 It's kinda unique to have that kind of diversity in a fellowship applicant pool. I'm interested in interventional radiology, but their big problem is that they don't oversee the patient's floor management. This will hopefully change with the new IR residency for medical students starting next year: http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/ http://www.sirweb.org/fellows-residents-students/