Trainee Ethics in Interventional Radiology.

Medical trainees face unique challenges as they transition from medical outsiders to primary operators.[1] This tends to be a rapid socialization process where they are continually evolving both consciously and unconsciously to meet the demands of changing roles and expectations from service to service and team to team.[2] Likewise, the senior trainees and faculty responsible for training them face unique challenges poised between a need to educate and support the next generation of clinicians and not jeopardize patient care through the involvement of less experienced operators. The authors believe these collective set of unique dilemmas surrounding medical education can collectively be termed “medical trainee ethics”—what are the distinct set of values and virtues that govern acceptable behavior related to trainees' education and involvement in healthcare?