[sarah.r.huntington]

I thought this was a certification for nonradiologists to sell themselves as vascular US experts? I doubt there’s any advantage to it as a rad. There’s a vascular surgeon who has this certification who just signs off whatever the tech’s impression was in my area.

[Unknown Member]

Vascular surgeons and cardiologists use RPVI to take over vascular ultrasound and they have been successful in many markets. IR should be more active in the area of vascular imaging. 

 

[ambacune]

Yeah I agree with this. No VSurg or ICard is going to have strong background training in imaging than an IR. I think rads as a whole should really be more active in vascular ultrasound. Does this mean going for the RPVI though? I don’t see how for an imaging based specialty though how it would add much.
 
It’d be like a vascular surgeon getting a specific certification for a single surgical procedure.