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Our curriculum is meticulously structured to provide a comprehensive and immersive training experience, ensuring our fellows are well-prepared for a successful career in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.
Curriculum Highlights
- Comprehensive ACGME and ABIM Alignment
- Autonomous Clinical Experience
- Hands-On Procedural Training
- Didactic Lecture Series and HF Board Review
- Cardiogenic Shock Conferences
- Research Conferences
- Mortality/Morbidity Conferences
- Multi- Disciplinary Conferences
- Journal Clubs
- Research and Publication Requirement
The core curriculum topics are designed to satisfy the ACGME, ACCF COCATS 3 Task Force 8–Level 3 training in heart failure, and the 2010 ACCF/AHA/ACP/HFSA/ISHLT clinical competence recommendations.
Supplemental Guide: Advanced FH and Transplant Cardiology
- Acute heart failure
- Cardiogenic shock
- Chronic heart failure
- Specific Cardiomyopathies
- Temporary mechanical circulatory support (MCS)
- Durable mechanical circulatory support (MCS)
- Heart transplantation patient selection and listing
- Intra and perioperative complications
- Immunosuppression and transplant immunology
- Acute allograft rejection
- Chronic allograft rejection
- Post-transplant infection, malignancy
- Palliative care
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Infectious Disease Rotation
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Palliative Care Rotation
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease Rotation
- Cardiac MRI Rotation
- Heart Failure, Transplant, and LVAD Cardiology Clinic
Fellows participate in weekly didactics from Adult Clinical Cardiology Self-Assessment Program (ACCSAP) test prep.
Sample Didactic Schedule: July 2023 - June 2024
Acute Heart Failure (56 questions total):
1. July 10, 2023 - Questions 1-7
2. July 17, 2023 - Questions 8-15
3. July 24, 2023 - Questions 16-23
4. July 31, 2023 - Questions 24-31
5. August 7, 2023 - Questions 32-39
6. August 14, 2023 - Questions 40-47
7. August 21, 2023 - Questions 48-56
Pulmonary Hypertension (19 questions):
8. August 28, 2023 - Questions 1-7
9. September 4, 2023 - Questions 8-15
10. September 11, 2023 - Questions 16-19
Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (30 questions):
11. September 22, 2023 - Questions 1-7
12. September 29, 2023 - Questions 8-15
13. October 6, 2023 - Questions 16-23
14. October 13, 2023 - Questions 24-30
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (100 questions):
15. November 17, 2023 - Questions 1-7
16. November 24, 2023 - Questions 8-15
17. December 1, 2023 - Questions 16-23
18. December 8, 2023 - Questions 24-31
19. December 15, 2023 - Questions 32-39
20. December 22, 2023 - Questions 40-47
21. December 29, 2023 - Questions 48-55
22. January 5, 2024 - Question 56 and ongoing
Mechanical Circulatory Support (74 questions):
23. March 15, 2024 - Questions 1-7
24. March 22, 2024 - Questions 8-15
25. March 29, 2024 - Questions 16-23
26. April 5, 2024 - Questions 24-31
27. April 12, 2024 - Questions 32-39
28. April 19, 2024 - Questions 40-47
29. April 26, 2024 - Questions 48-55
30. May 3, 2024 - Questions 56-63
31. May 10, 2024 - Questions 64-71
32. May 17, 2024 - Questions 72-74
Heart Transplantation (20 questions):
33. May 31, 2024 - Questions 1-7
34. June 7, 2024 - Questions 8-15
35. June 14, 2024 - Questions 16-20
Specific Etiologies of Heart Failure (70 questions):
36. June 28, 2024 - Questions 1-7
37. July 5, 2024 - Questions 8-15
38. July 12, 2024 - Questions 16-23
39. July 19, 2024 - Questions 24-30