Position statement: the role of physician assistants in interventional radiology.

DURING the past decade, interventional radiology (IR) has been transformed from a referral-based to a clinically based subspecialty. This has resulted in a fundamentally different type of workload for the practicing interventional radiologist. During this same time period, the scope of procedures provided by interventional radiologists continued to expand. A result of this decade of robust growth is a shortage of properly trained and qualified professionals. We now face a dilemma in not only how to keep up with procedural demand, but also how to provide clinical care for pa-