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Program year: 2019-2023
Forrest Linch, M.D.
Hometown: The Colony, Texas
Medical school: The University of Texas HSC at Houston
About me: From an early age, I was taught the value of work alongside academic achievement. Prior to heading down to Houston for medical school, a physician with whom I worked and admired tipped me off to "IR," although the warning remark was, "They work too hard." It was too late. The seed was sewn, and my prior gravitation toward diagnostic radiology was the fertilizer. For me, there is nothing more satisfying than the critical assessment of diagnostic imaging to plan, adapt, and perform image-guided interventions, providing therapies that would not otherwise be possible. The two inseparable elements of diagnostician and interventionalist, using the latest techniques and technologies to provide high-quality patient care, fully encapsulate my aspirations of becoming a physician.
Why Mayo: Mayo Clinic is preceded by its reputation for excellence, although the ultimate draw for me was the immense infrastructure dedicated to patient care and enabling providers to perform at their best, which includes a focus on wellness.
Program year: 2017-2022
What attracted you to Mayo Clinic?
Mayo Clinic takes great pride in training the next generation of doctors, and the radiology residency program is no exception. Our program is broad and diverse. The breadth of cases and teaching provided by consulting radiologists at Mayo Clinic are second to none.
Our faculty strive to improve and expand the scope of IR for the benefit of patients, most notably by pioneering CT and MR-guided ablation techniques which are now included in treatment guidelines, and bringing intravascular stem cell administration from benchtop to clinical research.
I was attracted to Mayo Clinic because I wanted to learn from the best.
Program year: 2016-2021
Destination: Staff Interventional Radiologist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
When selecting your career path, how did you come to decide on interventional radiology?
As a first-year medical student, I had the opportunity to shadow Dr. James Andrews in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I watched him perform a hepatic chemoembolization and then sit down at the patient’s bedside and discuss the results of the procedure with the patient and his family.
I was fascinated by the combination of clinical medicine, imaging, and procedural skills and decided then that I wanted to be an interventional radiologist, and never looked back.
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