{"id":1945,"date":"2024-04-04T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:24:40","slug":"partnership-track-position-interventional-radiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/2024\/04\/04\/partnership-track-position-interventional-radiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership Track Position &#8211; Interventional Radiology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large gutenify-section-392a12e0-f5d2-11ee-9fc7-e110b0319909 gtfy-1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/paul-headshot-2-1024x330.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/paul-headshot-2-1024x330.png 1024w, https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/paul-headshot-2-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/paul-headshot-2-768x248.png 768w, https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/paul-headshot-2-1536x495.png 1536w, https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/paul-headshot-2-2048x661.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-58f48070-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-4\">VRCI is a group of 29 radiologists providing Radiology and Nuclear Medicine services with&nbsp;multiple partner organizations&nbsp;in the Greater Victoria area, British Columbia, including&nbsp;Island Health,&nbsp;BC Cancer&nbsp;and&nbsp;West Coast Medical Imaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-618a87c0-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-7\">Our group of Interventional Radiologists consists of 6 members who cover Body and Neuro Interventional Radiology services at two tertiary care hospital sites (Royal Jubilee Hospital and Victoria General Hospital), and participate in the general radiology portion of our practice (roughly 70:30 split).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-62f58970-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-10\">Our referral base exceeds 800,000 people, and we provide all the diagnostic imaging services for the greater Victoria area in British Columbia, Canada. This includes image interpretation and image guided interventional procedures at 6 Island Health sites, 2 private imaging facilities, and BCCA Victoria.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading gutenify-section-d04823c0-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-13\">Scope of Interventional Radiology Practice:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"gutenify-section-c768b760-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 wp-block-list gtfy-22\">\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-9534b230-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-19 gutenify-list-item\">Two full-service angiography suites providing a range of procedural work.\n<ul class=\"gutenify-section-9ba827a0-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 wp-block-list gtfy-18\">\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-a273f640-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-16 gutenify-list-item\">Royal Jubilee Hospital predominantly covers peripheral vascular disease, dialysis and GI interventions and general IR.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-963de4d0-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-17 gutenify-list-item\">Victoria General Hospital predominantly covers our full complement of Interventional Oncology practice, acute\/inpatient neuro interventional work and general IR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-963f6b70-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-20 gutenify-list-item\">IR service also includes patient consultations and multi-disciplinary round participation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-a0afbb90-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-21 gutenify-list-item\">Pain medicine is predominantly practiced in two separate minor procedure suites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-a28565f0-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-25\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading gutenify-section-e95fc8e0-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-28\">Scope of General Radiology Practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-9640f210-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-31\">Prospective IRs should be comfortable providing general radiology level of interpretation in radiography, ultrasound, CT and MRI. We are open to retraining candidates in some areas of radiology practice they are less comfortable with on the job if they are motivated. Diagnostic call is not mandatory but available for interested candidates. Diagnostic imaging occurs via a common worklist and partners can pursue subspecialty imaging expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-5e52ee40-f5d0-11ee-9fc7-e110b0319909 gtfy-34\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"gutenify-section-952f0ce0-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 wp-block-list gtfy-38\">\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-57728a20-29ad-11ef-9cc5-cf1e5420958a gtfy-37 gutenify-list-item\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-58f85100-f29d-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-41\"><strong>All successful candidates must have:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"gutenify-section-49d9a920-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 wp-block-list gtfy-48\">\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-408310f0-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-44 gutenify-list-item\">FRCPC Certification in Diagnostic Radiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-41d66bf0-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-45 gutenify-list-item\">Fellowship Training in Body Interventional Radiology (or planning to do so)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-41d72f40-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-46 gutenify-list-item\">Neuro-interventional Training is not a requirement. Candidates will be expected to complete on the job training to obtain privileges for endovascular stroke therapy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-475c7420-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-47 gutenify-list-item\">Eligible for full licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-49daba90-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-51\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading gutenify-section-59ad7ac0-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-54\">Work Expectations:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"gutenify-section-69e51740-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 wp-block-list gtfy-60\">\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-41d90400-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-57 gutenify-list-item\">Participation in after-hours call coverage (shared between all the IRs)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-41d9a040-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-58 gutenify-list-item\">10 weeks vacation guaranteed for associate members.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"gutenify-section-41da3c80-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-59 gutenify-list-item\">Participation in a subset of multidisciplinary clinical rounds targeted to area(s) of subspecialty expertise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading gutenify-section-6d2f3930-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-63\">Why Victoria?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-75b9a7c0-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-66\">Victoria is a <a href=\"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/2024\/01\/27\/why-victoria\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1253\">beautiful city<\/a> to raise a family with wonderful people and excellent locales. Our practice is an equal opportunity practice and most members are good friends outside of work. The IR practice is comprehensive involving nearly all components of IR. Significant IR expansion is being planned and we are looking for motivated candidates wishing to grow the practice. We offer <a href=\"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/2024\/01\/29\/new-insights-bring-value\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1369\">competitive compensation<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/2024\/01\/28\/flexibility-in-radiologist-scheduling\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1264\">flexible scheduling options<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-9552a500-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-69\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading gutenify-section-8782e0c0-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-72\">How to apply?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-41ded060-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-75\">Please send a CV and letter of intent to Dr. Vamshi Kotha, Medical Lead for Interventional Radiology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gutenify-section-41e0a520-f29e-11ee-81f1-dd4a20175fd3 gtfy-78\">Vamshi.Kotha@islandhealth.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VRCI is a group of 29 radiologists providing Radiology and Nuclear Medicine services with&nbsp;multiple partner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicrad.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}