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AWARENESS OF PHYSICIANS ABOUT THE ROLE OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGISTS IN PATIENT CARE- A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Yahea A Alzahrani, Ahmed Khaled Alharthi, Muhannad Mohammed Alharthi, Khaled Bahubaishi, Majed Al-Hayani

Objective To map out the current provision of interventional radiologists in patient care Design Cross-sectional study.We designed a descriptive cross-sectional study-using questionnaire that included a total of 16 items. The questionnaire was pre-tested and validated in a pilot sample. The intra-rater and inter-rater reliability was also checked and it was found to be 0.912 and 0.871, respectively. Results Our cross-sectional study was done among medical residents practicing in the western province of Saudi Arabia, which included three main cities (Figure 1). We had about 46.70% (n=99) residents from R1, 23.11% (n=49) from R2, 13.68% (n=29) from R3, and 10.85% (n=23) from R4 programs, with only 5.66% (n=12) from R5, respectively. Conclusion The findings of our study show that there is a lack of awareness among medical residents regarding IR and its application in the clinical practice. The perceived awareness among the participants could be mainly due to insufficient exposure to this sub-specialty in the undergraduate medical curriculum. Hence, it is suggested that the curriculum of undergraduate should be updated by incorporating IR at both basic and clinical levels of the medicine program in Saudi Arabia.

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