Cardiovascular disease training, as a subspecialty of internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), has been in existence since approximately 1973. Our program was first accredited by the ACGME on July 1, 1987. We increased our ACGME cardiovascular disease training program complement from 18 to 24 trainees in 1998. This training program is one of the largest cardiology training programs in the country with three primary inpatient training sites, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center and several ambulatory training sites including the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the newly built (May 2020) Penn Medicine Radnor.
Location
Our program is centrally located in the Perelman Center of Advanced Medicine on the campus of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, all embedded within the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. We moved into our current offices, occupying the 11th floor of the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine South Pavilion, in 2016.
Highlights include offices for each fellowship class equipped with desk space + computer for each fellow, all of which is located within steps of our fellowship conference room (redesigned in March 2020 with state-of-the-art broadcast/videoconference/recording facilities), fellowship administration offices, most division faculty offices, inpatient/outpatient care areas, and the new Jordan Medical Education Center, used by the Perelman School of Medicine for medical student teaching.
All three of our primary inpatient training sites are located within a 10-minute walk of each other within the University City section of Philadelphia.
University of Pennsylvania Health System Graduate Medical Education
Our fellowship training program is part of a rich graduate medical education (GME) environment. Visit the GME website and see below for a video introduction to GME at our institution.
The New Patient Pavilion - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania East
Our core cardiology inpatient services, including our intermediate and critical care cardiac floors, procedural areas, and echocardiography lab, will be moving into our New Patient Pavilion in late 2021, opening many new opportunities for reimagining our inpatient cardiovascular medicine education experience. This new hospital is currently under construction - check out an overview of it below!