Where is subspecialty training in cardiology?

[carDiO]

I just have to say that there is a lot of info on this site about anything you may have questions about. WOW. However, I have done a search and turned up no answer to this question. Let me know if there is a better way to search. I am not meaning to drag up a topic that has already be discussed ad nauseum.

Here goes:

If a hospital/university has a cardiovascular disease fellowship program, will they also have traning programs for clinical cardiac electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, etc.? I have looked at several of the cardiovascular disease websites and haven't found whether or not they have training available in these other areas.

Rephrased:

So will ALL facilities with a cardiovascular disease fellowship have the subspecialties too, or just certain ones. If only certain ones, which ones?

Thanks in advance

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[carDiO]

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[task]

As a general rule, programs that have Cardiology/Cardiovascular Disease (same thing) fellowships will have the subspecialty fellowship tracks like EP, Intervention, Non-Invasive, Heart Failure. However, this isn't true everywhere. For example, here at Parkland, while we have EP, we don't have Interventional Cardiology as a fellowship -- obviously, we have staff, but not an accredited fellowship. This is a function of #s -- you need the caseload to generate volume to generate #s for accreditation.
We have Heart Failure, but not non-invasive (imaging) but that's a function of the logistics of the general Cards fellowship and how faculty are allocated (also an accreditation issue) and for actual payment of fees to say "we have a non-invasive fellowship".

The best thing to do is call an individual program that you are interested in and ask.

Hope this helps. PM me or post if other questions.

 

[ys]

FREIDA website search for fellowships will be helpful in ascertaining the info you desire.