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General Cardiology Fellowship

Clinical Training

Fellows have the opportunity to accrue sufficient training (number of procedures, educational and research opportunities, and rotation months) to achieve COCATS Level 2 training in Cardiac Catheterization, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology. In addition, there is sufficient time in the training program to achieve Level 2 in Cardiovascular CT and Cardiovascular MR if the trainee desires.

During Ambulatory Clinic training, we have instituted an innovative model that combines the Continuity Clinic model with the Block model, to incorporate the best features of each, allowing fellows to follow a panel of patients longitudinally, plus intensive exposure to all the major areas of cardiovascular disease. The Continuity Clinic Model is conducted at the Birmingham VA Medical Center where each fellow follows a pool of his or her own patients for the entirety of training. During the Block Model, fellows rotate through the major areas of cardiovascular disease listed below.

General Cardiology in the first year

Arrhythmia and Heart Failure/ Pulmonary Hypertension in the second year

Elective time including Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the third year

This model has been very well received by the trainees and enables each fellow to learn advanced methods in each of the specialty areas of cardiology during the three years of training. 

Didactics

Fellows come together for noon conferences and other educational conferences each week. Many of these are CME accredited, a testimony to the considerable planning effort that goes into them. Fellows will accrue adequate contact hours in Nuclear Instrumentation and Safety to sit for the Nuclear Cardiology Board examination.

Medical Licensure

UAB covers the costs of Medical and DEA licensure during the course of training.

Meeting Travel

Assisting fellows in networking, research, clinical training and exposure, our program covers the costs for all trainees to attend one major meeting per year.

Mentoring

Our program has a unique personal development mentoring system that combines career development advising with research and clinical advising.

Research Training

UAB Cardiovascular Disease fellow trainees participate in a large number of research projects in our division and their research is featured in manuscripts, meeting abstracts, and presentations at a variety of settings including national meetings and our own UAB Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center annual symposium.

Our division hosts T32 training programs in Vascular Biology and Hypertension and in Basic and Translational Sciences in Heart Failure. Trainees wishing to pursue two to three dedicated, protected years of research in these fields are encouraged to participate.

There is the option to obtain an advanced degree (e.G., MSPH) while participating in the training programs noted above — with tuition potentially covered as part of the T32.

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Steven G. Lloyd, MD, PhD

Fellowship Director/Vice Division Director for Education

Interventional Cardiology Fellowship

The Interventional Cardiology Fellowship is designed to provide cardiology training in coronary interventions, with significant exposure to peripheral and structural procedures. In addition, the interventional cardiology fellow will obtain experience in the clinical and translational interventional cardiology research program.

The program is primarily devoted to training the interventional fellow in both advanced diagnostic and interventional percutaneous coronary procedures. Substantive supplemental exposure to noncoronary cardiac, peripheral, and structural diagnostic and interventional procedures will also be obtained. Competency in basic peripheral vascular (iliac and brachiocephalic) should be expected. A broad range of established and experimental techniques and devices will be used. During the year each fellow will participate actively in approximately 300+  interventional procedures as well as 200-300 diagnostic procedures.

In addition to performing these procedures, the fellow is primarily responsible for the pre-procedure assessment and post procedural care of his/her patients. The interventional cardiovascular fellow will work closely with our highly experienced interventional cardiovascular nurse practitioners/physician assistants, interventional cardiovascular unit nurses, catheterization laboratory, research, and office/administrative staff. As part of his training, he/she is a source of reference and assistance to the internal medicine housestaff who rotate through the inpatient cardiology service.

The fellowship program has a core curriculum which is completed through independent reading, patient care, procedures, and weekly interventional conferences. The trainee will have the opportunity to initiate, develop, and participate in multi-center and single-center research projects.

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Adventist To Take Over Shuttered California Hospital

Shuttered Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital reached an initial agreement to have Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health take over operations.

The deal comes after a bankruptcy judge gave the hospital until Aug. 4 to continue its spending plan and search for a buyer or face liquidation from its creditors. The hospital — which has been closed since the start of 2023 — also applied for an $80 million loan from the newly created Distressed Hospital Loan Program.

Financial advisors told county officials that it could take six to nine months for Madera to reopen once it finds a buyer.

"California hospitals face many financial challenges, and for independent rural hospitals, these challenges can sometimes be almost insurmountable," Adventist President and CEO Kerry Heinrich said in a July 28 Adventist news release provided to Becker's. "If Madera succeeds in getting the financial resources it needs, Adventist Health will provide Madera Community Hospital with the expertise of a large healthcare system, helping to secure a sustainable future for healthcare in Madera County."

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