Our curriculum is meticulously structured to provide a comprehensive and immersive training experience, ensuring our fellows are well-prepared for a successful career in interventional cardiology. We are in strict compliance with ACGME duty hour regulations, and the fellows’ well-being is of paramount importance to the program leadership and faculty.

Curriculum Highlights

  • Procedural Emphasis: Our fellowship program places a strong emphasis on procedural experience. Fellows are in the cath lab performing procedures daily, with ambulatory clinic half a day a week.
  • Interventional Call: Our two interventional fellows split weekday and weekend calls. Often, some of the richest experiences in acute management of sick patients occurs after-hours, and the cases our fellows perform run the spectrum of acuity from high risk NSTEMIs and STEMIs to cardiogenic shock.
  • Inpatient Consults: Fellows are also expected to see interventional cardiology consults, which are typically ordered for more complex decision making cases. In collaboration with the cath lab attending, fellows review the patient’s comorbidities, hemodynamics, and coronary anatomy to determine the best mode and strategy for revascularization. A multidisciplinary Heart Team approach including the patient and the family is undertaken to provide the best patient care.
  • Exposure to Structural Heart Interventions: Two days every two weeks, fellows scrub with the structural heart interventionalists performing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacements (TAVRs). Experience in other structural heart interventions (Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair, PFO and ASD closure) can be accommodated based on the fellow’s interest and procedural competency.
  • Interventional Clinics: Our fellows dedicate half a day each week to clinic (one week at the Medical Center and the second week at the VA), where they engage with a diverse mix of new and follow-up patients. 
  • Research and Quality Improvement: We actively encourage our fellows to engage in research and quality improvement initiatives. Fellows have the opportunity to contribute to abstracts and manuscripts for publication, including case reports, review articles, and original studies. This involvement enriches their academic experience and contributes to the advancement of interventional cardiology.