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Don’t skip the sub-I at your home institution. One of the things you will be evaluated on are your back table skills; consults, how good you are at clinic, things like that. So, you will need to establish those skills, and these are skills that can only be built with experience. Doing a Sub-I at your home institution is a good way to get that experience, as well as establishing a reputation and connections with people who can speak to those skills later on.


Stand out during rotations. One way to stand out is to nail the essentials and be prepared. So read up on the case. Review the IR playbook and materials so that you have a better sense of what’s going on. It’s not just to answer the questions—if you understand what’s going on, it’s going to be a lot more engaging to be in the angio suite and can ask higher level questions.


At the end of rotation, you may be asked to do a presentation. This


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is a good way to stand out and showcase all the things you know. I once received advice to pick a topic that isn’t super well known at the institution. For example, if the institution doesn’t do a lot of a certain service line, focus on that. This will get everyone engaged, because they may be learning a thing or two, and it won’t be a topic that everyone deals with every day. There’s no way to know more than your attending about what they do every day.


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