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Networking and netiquette
By Hope Racine H
ow to treat a malignant caval occlusion. A product safety notice. New IR job listings. Insurance
denials. Nitroglycerine shortages. A glance down the main page of SIR Connect (
connect.sirweb.org) provides immediate insight into the frustrations and experiences of today’s interventional radiology community— all in one spot.
SIR Connect, SIR’s members-only online community, is a robust platform that allows for general, open discussion, but also gives home to
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specialty and section discussions— from the Resident, Fellow and Medical Students Section to the Peripheral Arterial Disease Service Line forum. And at a time in which members increasingly go online for education and networking, SIR Connect regularly shows its appeal and power as a professional forum.
“[SIR Connect] is actually the first place I go to now for IR advice,” says Ezana Azene, MD, PhD. “There’s really nowhere else you can go where you have access to literally the entire IR community, including the luminaries
in the field.” Unlike in many industries and areas, SIR Connect provides an opportunity for medical students or early career physicians to pose a question and provide guidance from IRs who have been practicing for decades—or who are leaders and innovators in the area. “You put up a question and next day you have multiple responses,” says Dr. Azene. “And you can feel confident with the feedback and whatever determination you come up with based on that feedback.”
But SIR Connect is also, at heart, a social media platform.
“Sometimes heated discussions happen,” says David Lawrence Jr., MD. “Comments can become a flurry when you’re talking about something people are passionate about, and human nature is that there are opposing opinions.”
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