Also called: IR Physician
Uses live X-ray and ultrasound images to guide tiny wires and catheters through the body to treat disease without open surgery.
Snakes a catheter from a patient's wrist all the way to their liver to inject chemo straight into a tumor, then stops internal bleeding in a trauma patient by plugging the artery from the inside. Like a video game with real stakes.
Estimate; BLS top-codes physician wages.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 14 years after high school. Bachelor's, medical school, then a 6-year integrated interventional radiology residency.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Physics, Biomedical Engineering.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. AI improves image guidance and planning; threading catheters through vessels in real time stays a human skill.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Physics, AP Chemistry, Video game or simulation club.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1224.
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