Interventional Cardiology Fellowship

We currently offer three positions for this fully accredited Interventional Cardiology program. Applicants must have completed an accredited three-year fellowship in clinical cardiology, and be board certified/eligible in adult cardiovascular disease.

There are four catheterization laboratories. The projected volume is approximately 1400 coronary and 400 peripheral interventions per year. The Fellow is responsible for the workup, the interventional procedure, and the post-procedure. This is a dedicated fourth-year interventional program with opportunities in research.

Program

The Interventional Cardiology fellowship provides training on the pre- and post-procedural management of interventional cardiovascular patients, on the performance of interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular procedures, and education and research devoted to Interventional cardiology.

Faculty

The fellowship’s faculty consists of 11 interventional cardiologists, who participate in several ongoing research trials.

Expectations For Fellows

Clinical Role

The Interventional cardiology fellows function as consultants for patients with acute coronary syndromes, both in the hospital and in outpatient settings, including the Emergency Department. Outpatient experience also includes seeing new or follow-up patients in an outpatient ambulatory setting.

• Perform, on average, two to three Interventional procedures daily.
• See the patient pre-procedure and explain the procedure to the patient.
• Discuss the indications, coronary anatomical findings, and equipment selection with the Interventional cardiologist.
• See the patient on the day of, and the day following the procedure, and are responsible, together with the interventional cardiologist, to deal with peri-procedural complications.

Conferences

The interventional fellows are involved in the preparation of catheterization conferences. Catheterization conferences occur weekly, with the fellows preparing 2-3 conferences monthly, dealing with patient selection, complications, or unusual aspects of interventional cardiology cases. The other catheterization conferences are didactic conferences, discussing issues of interest to interventional cardiologists, as well as discussing research aspects of interventional cardiology.

Research

Interventional cardiology fellows are encouraged to develop and participate in a research project during their year as interventional fellows.

Program-at-a-Glance

We currently offer three positions per year; our program provides training in the pre- and post-procedural management of interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular patients, in the performance of interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular procedures, and in education and research devoted to interventional cardiology and peripheral vascular disease. Fellows graduating from our program will be capable of operating independently in the interventional arena. They will be capable of working in private practice or in an academic setting, ultimately becoming a catheterization laboratory director.

There are four catheterization laboratories. The projected yearly volume is approximately 1400 coronary and 400 peripheral interventions. We perform PCI on approximately 250 STEMI’s per year, the largest volume in Massachusetts. The Fellow is responsible for the pre and post-procedure workup, the interventional procedure, and the procedural report. Fellows are on call every third weekend. We have a full-time nurse practitioner who assists in the catheterization laboratory, takes calls biweekly, and helps with many of the discharges.

All applicants entering interventional cardiology must have completed a cardiovascular disease program accredited by the ACGME.