Our fellowship program prides itself in deliberately crafting a structured educational experience for our fellows. Each year, our chief fellows revise the curriculum based on direct feedback from fellows in the program. Additionally, we have been pioneering virtual education and the incorporation of technology into our educational programs for the last several years.
Weekly Structured Education Schedule
We have conferences scheduled from 730am-0830am and 12p-1p each weekday with the expectation that fellows attend conference - this is baked into the culture of our fellowship program. Our conference series kicks off each year with a summer bootcamp series covering the basics of cardiovascular medicine.
- Summer (July-September): Bootcamp lectures
- Monday:
- Fellows' case conference
- Adult congenital heart disease case conference
- Division Journal Club/Focused Topic Reviews
- Tuesday:
- Cardiac catheterization film review
- Specialty series
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease series
- Health Systems Science/Quality Improvement Series
- Cardio-oncology series
- Women's Cardiovascular Health Curriculum (MUCHACHA)
- Click here for a description of this curriculum published in JACC: Case Reports
- Fellows' Professional Development Series/Fellows' Research Work-in-Progress
- Fellow-focused catheterization film review
- Wednesday:
- Joint cardiovascular medicine/cardiovascular surgery conference
- ECG conference
- Thursday:
- Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds
- Accompanied by fellows' conferences and meetings with grand rounds speakers
- Echocardiography conference
- Echocardiography research conference
- Friday:
- Cardiac catheterization film review
- Multimodality Imaging Conference
- Preventative Cardiology Conference
Innovation in Fellowship Education
Since 2016, we have hosted a virtual clinical learning environment/community containing recorded lectures and other resources. In 2020, we debuted our redesigned conference room (equipped with state-of-the-art video conferencing/broadcast facilities) and launched our Microsoft Teams collaboration platform. Each conference is broadcast live to the division community and recorded/posted on Microsoft Teams for fellow access anytime/anywhere.
Additionally, we use Microsoft Teams for fellow/faculty collaboration and live, ongoing case discussion.
We have also deployed other novel educational technologies including:cath simulator:
- Simulation tools (using augmented reality/Microsoft HoloLens) for echocardiography and cardiac catheterization
- Point-of-care ultrasound using the Butterfly ultrasound platform as well as sharing/recording of heart sounds enabled by the Eko platform
- Audience participation in lectures through Poll Everywhere