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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Laage Gaupp, Fabian M.
• Solomon, Nadia
• Rukundo, Ivan
• Naif, Azza A.
• Mbuguje, Erick M.
• Gonchigar, Anish
• Xing, Minzhi
• Prologo, John D.
• Silin, Douglas D.
• Minja, Frank J.

Titel

Tanzania IR Initiative: Training the First Generation of Interventional Radiologists

Ist Teil von

• Journal of vascular and interventional radiology, 2019-12, Vol.30 (12), p.2036-2040

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite a population of nearly 60 million, there is currently not a single interventional radiologist in Tanzania. Based on an Interventional Radiology (IR) Readiness Assessment, the key obstacles to establishing IR in Tanzania are the lack of training opportunities and limited availability of disposable equipment. An IR training program was designed and initiated, which relies on US-based volunteer teams of IR physicians, nurses, and technologists to locally train radiology residents, nurses, and technologists. Preliminary results support this strategy for addressing the lack of training opportunities and provide a model for introducing IR to other resource-limited settings.