Cardiac Fellowship Training Program Outline

Cardiovascular Regulatory Boards, Councils and Guidelines

• American Board of Internal Medicine subspeciality board Cardiovascular Disease: Internal Medicine 3 years,  fellowship 3 years, Certification Examination
• Residency Review Committee
• American Council for Graduate Medical Education ACGME 
• American College of Cardiology training guidelines - COCATS

Objectives

Complete goals of the Cardiology Fellowship Program (PDF)

Highlights:

• Intellectual Environment: acquire knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, attitudes, values
• Best possible compassionate care with humanistic and ethical attributes
• Balance between academic and clinical service
• Scholarship and completed research followed by reviewed journal publication
• Critical thinking in Journal clubs, literature reviews, internet learning, presentations

Curriculum

Complete Core Curriculum (PDF)

Summary:

• Clinical core - 24 mos (9 nonlab, 3 CICU), continuity clinics 2-½ days/wk
• Didactic, case conferences, self learning (interactive), examinations
• Faculty/fellow ratio (17/10)
• Level 1 - basic to become competent consultant cardiologist
• Level 2 - additional to perform and interpret procedures or specialized care
• Level 3 - advanced to perform, interpret, and train others

Training

Complete training outline (PDF)

Highlights:

• Conferences, Seminars, Review of Published Reports, Lectures
• Teaching, Education, Self-study
• Evaluation, Documentation of Competence, Feedback, Records, Examinations (General, Echo, Cath, EP, ECG)

Related Training

• Radiology: Cardiac and vascular x-ray
• Surgery: risk, benefit, preop, postop CT
• Anesthesia: preop, postop cardiac patients
• Pulmonary: PFT, angio, scan, pulmonary disease
• Obstetrics: pregnancy and heart disease
• Physiology: exercise stress, aging
• Pharmacology: cardiovascular drugs, function
• Pathology: gross, microscopic heart disease
• Geriatics: aging on CV disease and therapy

Environment

• Internal Medicine Residency
• 10 subspecialty programs
• Inpatient and Outpatient facilities (UC Davis Medical Center, VA Sacramento Medical Center)
• Laboratories: invasive and non-invasive
• Nuclear cardiology, Electrophysiology, Research
• Intensive Care Facilities
• Cardiac and Peripheral vascular surgery
• Faculty and Facilities:
  • Congenital Heart Disease
  • Hypertension, Peripheral vascular
  • Pulmonary, X-ray, MRI
  • Preventive Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Pathology
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation