Abstract No. 317: The utility of a dedicated interventional radiology fellow website

Abstract

While many radiology residencies have their own personalized resident websites for keeping track of schedules, gathering helpful documents, tracking conference attendance and making announcements, fellows are often left to hunt for the information they need. IR fellows in particular have a strong need for easy hospital wide access to relevant paperwork and information. Our purpose is to demonstrate the utility of having a dedicated and independent interventional radiology fellowship website to simplify and centralize information necessary for functioning efficiently and productively on the IR service. HTML, Javascript and PHP scripting languages were utilized to set up a secure, password-protected website that contains information necessary for functioning on our institution's service. A number of relevant documents including the basics of how to use the hospital electronic records systems, patient care related information such as consent forms, a method for managing anonymous and secure patient lists, pre-procedure workups, basic IR relevant management algorithms, and hospital phone numbers were compiled into a centralized, easy to remember secure website accessible throughout the hospital. Information on the day-to-day runnings of the fellowship such as fellow and resident rotation schedules, conference schedules, journal clubs, attendance records, and contact numbers were also integrated. An RSS feed from the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology containing abstracts from the most recent articles was also included to give fellows a quick glimpse at new research whenever they log in. A large part of being an interventional radiology fellow or a resident rotating on the interventional radiology service is taking care of patients before and after their procedures. In order to simplify obtaining and keeping track of patient information and having consents and workup forms readily available on the floors, an easy to remember secure website accessible throughout the hospital facilitates this greatly.