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.
Penn Cardiology will be starting a clinical track in June 2025 for fellows who want their focus to be on becoming outstanding clinicians. Years 1 & 2 will be similar with all 12 fellows rotating through the various sites. However, Clinical Track fellows will spend Year 3 primarily at PPMC. Please click here for more information.
Location
The cardiology fellowship program is centrally located in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (PCAM) on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) fellows will spend time at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) and the VA Hospital. Three of our primary training sites are located within a 10 minute walk of each other within the University City section of Philadelphia.
Highlights at each location include dedicated space for the fellows. At PCAM 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. At PPMC, fellows have a dedicated work space within the PHI building, including desks and computers.
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!