IR Quarterly

Celebrating rural health day

Interventional radiologists have a unique ability to bridge the gaps in access to care for rural communities. This rural health day, hear from some of the IRs who are navigating the challenges of this practice model, while providing life-saving care to their patients.

The unexpected locum

Mark H. Knelson, MD, thought his IR career had come to an early end—until he discovered locum tenens work, and became involved in expanding IR access to an underserved community.

Fall 2025 Small and Rural Practices

The lone IR

In a time of hospital closures, burnout and workforce shortages, it is commonplace for interventional radiology departments to be overburdened and understaffed. But what happens when you’re the only radiologist left in your entire hospital system?

Fall 2025 Small and Rural Practices Practice development Practice profiles

The next IR frontier

IRs have an opportunity to fill an as-yet unmet need: providing care to rural, small and medically underserved areas.

50th anniversary Small and Rural Practices Winter 2025

The debt question

The causes of workforce shortages are multiple and multifaceted, but one can’t ignore the large impact that medical school debt has on the shortage.

Advocacy Resident-in-training Small and Rural Practices Fall 2024

Practice planning

Considerations for setting up a new IR practice

Practice development Small and Rural Practices Fall 2023

Dialing in

Utilizing telehealth to expand the reach of small or rural IR practices

Small and Rural Practices Fall 2023

Short-term work, long-term possibilities

The pros and cons of locum tenens work

Small and Rural Practices Practice profiles Summer 2023

A workforce in crisis

Hawaii is facing a healthcare workforce crisis—one that’s deepening existing disparities and impacting the health of the state’s inhabitants.

Small and Rural Practices Diversity and inclusion Winter 2023

Crossing the IR desert

When I started my career in Charleston, West Virginia, I was the only interventional radiologist in a community of 50,000 people. I was already somewhat familiar with the challenges faced by patients in remote communities, having previously worked...

Renal Small and Rural Practices Spring 2021

Interventional radiology comes home

Across a 30-mile radius in rural northwest Indiana, more than 1,000 patients with multiple chronic conditions are confined to their homes or to nursing facilities and encounter difficulty receiving care they need for their chronic conditions.

Small and Rural Practices Genitourinary (GU) Renal Venous Interventional Oncology

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