Resident and Fellow Education

Physician education and training is an essential means by which the Section of Cardiology contributes to the educational mission at DHMC. This spans from the medical student, to the resident physician, and to the cardiology fellow. At each stage, members of the Section provide didactic teaching, bedside teaching, and specialized training through a variety of electives.

Quick Link: View on-line resident training curriculum

Cardiology Fellowship Opportunities

Interventional fellow, Fran Redican, making a presentation at a noon conference.

DHMC Cardiology offers accredited fellowship training in:

• Cardiovascular Disease
• Cardiac Electrophysiology
• Interventional Cardiology

Detailed information about general, interventional and electrophysiology fellowship programs, as well as application materials, can be obtained using the menu to the left. In addition, the potential applicant can learn about the breadth of academic, clinical and research opportunities at DHMC by navigating throughout this site.

More information about graduate training can be found at the DHMC Graduate Medical Education and at the GME Residency and Fellowship Programs page.

Interventional fellow, Jonathan Sherman and heart failure nurse, Melissa Hall.

To learn more about our current clinical and research fellows, visit our Cardiology Fellowship Roster.

To review publications arising from DHMC Staff and fellows, visit the Publications 2006 Page.

To review recent teaching conferences in cardiology, attendance at which is expected by fellows, visit the Cardiology Grand Rounds Page or list of Historical Conferences.

Resident Teaching

A key function of staff and fellows at DHMC is participation in housestaff education as residents migrate through the Inpatient Cardiology Service (4 East) and Coronary Care Unit (CCU) rotations.

Structured Educational Opportunities: Specific educational opportunities provided housestaff during clinical rotations include:

• Dedicated daily bedside teaching with staff physicians, focusing on nuances of the clinical history taking and cardiovascular examination
• Dedicated didactic teaching provided by staff and fellows, provided 3 days per week, typically at 11 am - in the Cardiology Conference Room on level 5
• Optional attendance at daily noon-time Cardiology conferences (located in Cardiology Conference Room on level 5) - see schedule
• Daily participation in multi-disciplinary rounds
• Assigned reading on key cardiology topics obtained in a printed manual provided to all housestaff at the beginning of each rotation (and also available for review on-line)

On-line Curriculum: All housestaff are provided with a printed manual at the beginning of each rotation, containing didactic teaching material (primarily reviews on key cardiovascular topics). The majority of information contained in this manual can also be accessed on-line and reviewed. Review on-line curriculum...