RESUMEN
Interventional radiology interacts with all medical disciplines and historically has not had a patient base of its own. The specialty has depended upon referrals for procedures (often complex) and not referrals for the global management of the disease process or patient. Because of this, when referrers develop catheter-based skills, referrals to interventional radiology drop and competition for primary care physician referrals increase; a double strike. To compete, interventional radiology needs to offer clinical services to the primary care physician. One way to compete is by establishing particular disease surveillance programs. Below we discuss in detail the process of establishing surveillance clinics, which one worked for us, and the expected outcomes of these clinics.