Colleges for Cardiologists

Brown Medical School

• The Brown Medical School's Division of Cardiology sponsors six fellows a year for a minimum of three years in its accredited general program, with advanced programs in interventional cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. The general program includes rotations at the Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) during the first two years, with a third elective year focusing upon research and additional training. A total of 24 to 27 months of the fellowship is dedicated to clinical cardiology. Students can spend a fourth year in a physician-scientist track. RIH's many patients with acute coronary artery disease have given the division the opportunity to develop specific interventional techniques. Students train in clinical facilities including a Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service and a Coronary Care Unit and Intermediate Coronary Care Unit.

  Brown Medical School
  Division of Cardiology
  Rhode Island Hospital
  593 Eddy Street
  Main Bldg., Rm. 209
  Providence, RI 02903
  401-444-8041
  brownmedicine.org

Dartmouth-Hitchcock

• The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Cardiovascular Center (DHCC) offers a three-year full-time cardiology fellowship, with fellowships in two subspecialties: electrophysiology and interventional cardiology. The DHCC recommends that students commit two years for the electrophysiology fellowship so they can amass plenty of clinical hours training in different kinds of complex abation, including atrial fibrillation. This way they will have extra time for research and the kind of training in autonomous clinical activity that junior medical faculty receive. The one-year interventional cardiology fellowship includes laboratory research, conference participation and teaching cardiology residents as well as one half-day each week of outpatient shifts, periodic on-call rotations. Patient cases to train with include ischemic heart disease and valvular heart disease. Training in coronary procedures does not include heart transplantation. Candidates for the interventional cardiology fellowship should have at least six months training in a cardiac catheterization laboratory. They can have completed their three-year cardiology fellowship elsewhere.

  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Cardiovascular Center
  Dartmouth Medical School
  One Medical Center
  Lebanon, NH 03756
  603-650-5000
  dartmouth.edu

Baylor College

• Each fall, the Section of Cardiology at the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) accepts five to seven general cardiology fellows, three interventional cardiology fellows and one or two in electrophysiology. All candidates for these slots are interviewed in February and March. BCM cardiology fellows trade rotations in the hospitals of the Texas Medical Center, including the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, The Methodist Hospital, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Ben Taub General Hospital. At St. Luke's, BCM offers the Baylor Heart Clinics, where fellows work with faculty specializing in cardiac transplantation, heart failure and preventative cardiology. Faculty in the Section of Cardiology also do clinical research in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and cardiac imaging, among other subspecialties.

  Baylor College of Medicine
  The Margaret M. and Albert B. Alkek Department of Medicine
  Section of Cardiology
  One Baylor Plaza
  Mail Stop BCM620
  Houston, TX 77030
  713-798-0280
  bcm.edu