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Please rank the best interventional cardiology fellowships nationwide. would be interested in hearing thoughts!
Please rank the best interventional cardiology fellowships nationwide. would be interested in hearing thoughts![/QUOTE
depends on what u are trying to do.. The best academic places may want u to stay for two years. If you are planning to do valves, structural heart disease or become a master in peripherals it wd be worthwhile doing a two year interventional fellowship..
Most programs will very train you well in basic PCI stuff..
IMHO the best cath programs are
CCF, Columbia, Duke, Texas Heart, Michigan, MGH, Brigham and possibly Mayo and Hopkins.
Any input about reputation of Intervention cardiology fellowship programme at University of Miami Leonard M Miller (JMH) Thanks in advance
OJB
Axc,
Thanks man. Definitely appreciate the info. I'm from a NYC program so if you ever need any info about NY programs just let me know.
Jb24
Hi
I was wondering if you can shed some light over Albany cardiology fellowship program ?
Thanks in advance
In reply to a previous poster, here are my thoughts on WHC and Brown:
Washington Hospital Center:
It is a 2 year program, with one of the years totally dedicated to research. They are incredibly high volume, maybe the highest in the country. 6000 interventions and only 3 fellows per year so no shortage of cases. They are a PARTNER site and do all of the structural and peripheral procedures (not sure about carotids). They have 10 cath labs, all at WHC (I believe that there are no rotations at Georgetown). They have some of the leading interventionalists in the country, including Augusto Pichard and Ron Waxman. Its a great place/top program, if you are willing to devote a whole year to research.
Brown:
It is a 1 year program, equally split 6 months each between RIH and the Miriam Hospital. I think combined they do about 2500 interventions. They have 4 fellows, 2 of which are at RIH and 2 at Miriam at any given time. Their peripheral volume is strong, mostly through the Miriam. They are not a part of PARTNER and I do not believe that are part of CORE. The outside opinion is that the program is much stronger now that fellows are able to rotate through both hospitals, since most of the peripheral volume is at Miriam, but I would be curious to see what the Brown fellows have to say about that. There also seems to be some pretty good clinical research opportunities with Abbott and Williams. Overall, it seems to be a very solid program with the caveat that there is no TAVI at this point, but again, who knows how ubiquitous this will be in the next 6-9 months.
By the way, albany most certainly has an IC fellowship program. http://www.amc.edu/academic/gme/programs/InterventionalCardiology/index.html
Also, no discussion about the top interventional programs would be complete without including Cedars-Sinai, Scripps, and Ochsner (which is the only program I know of that offers training in intracerebral stenting...the IC fellows take stroke call).