Core Curriculum for Cardiovascular Fellows
The fellowship program offers a two-year comprehensive educational curriculum. The information outlined below may not be 100% accurate. We are working on updating the information for our upcoming fellowship program. If you have any questions about the curriculum, please contact our office by e-mail, letter, or call Staci Leitner, Clinical Fellowship Coordinator at (650) 725-4183, or Laura Dodera, Research Fellowship Coordinator at (650) 725-4177, or fax at (650) 725-1599.
| Basic Science | |||
| Principles of Molecular Biology | |||
| Molecular Biology of Cardiovascular Disease | |||
| Cardiovascular Genetics | |||
| Vascular Endothelium | |||
| Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |||
| Introduction to Epidemiology: Study Design, Bias, Confounding | |||
| Introduction to Biostastistics | |||
| Biostatistical Computer Analysis | |||
| Prospective studies: design and interpretation | |||
| Retrospective studies: design and interpretation | |||
| Evaluation of a diagnostic test | |||
| Economic analysis | |||
| Issues in Clinical Trial design and interpretation | |||
| Survival analysis | |||
| Cardiac Rehabilitation | |||
| Principles of Cardiac Rehabilitation | |||
| Practical Aspects of Cardiac Rehabilitation | |||
| Preventive Cardiology | |||
| Hyperlipidemia and lipid lowering agents | |||
| Treatment of hypertension | |||
| Cardiac risk stratification | |||
| Acute Coronary Syndromes | |||
| Acute Coronary Syndromes | |||
| Diagnosis and management of AMI | |||
| Thrombolytic trials in AMI | |||
| Medical versus surgical revascularization for CAD | |||
| Complications of AMI | |||
| Cardiac Catherization and Percutaneous Interventions | |||
| Introduction to cardiac catherization | |||
| Invasive hemodynamic monitoring: basic principles | |||
| Invasive hemodynamic monitoring: waveforms | |||
| Angiography: Basics and anomalies | |||
| Angiography: Basics and anomalies | |||
| Beyond angiography: IVUS, CFR, and FFR | |||
| Device development | |||
| Arrhythmias and Clinical Electrophysiology | |||
| EP emergencies and urgent problems | |||
| AICD Indications | |||
| Pacemaker indications, implant and function, troubleshooting | |||
| BiV indications, implant and function, troubleshooting | |||
| Antiarrhythmic drugs, SVT/VT/ACLS refresher | |||
| Management of Atrial fibrillation and SVT | |||
| Syncope | |||
| AV block and EP tracings | |||
| Electrocardiography | |||
| Ischemia and infarction | |||
| Ventricular hypertrophy | |||
| ECG Boardsmanship | |||
| Atrial abnormalities | |||
| Bundle branch blocks | |||
| AV block and bradycardia | |||
| Supraventricular tachycardias | |||
| Electrolytes, SAECG, TWA, and miscellaneous topics | |||
| Congenital variants and abnormalities | |||
| Ventricular arrhythmias | |||
| ECG Unknowns | |||
| Pacemaker rhythms | |||
| Valvular Heart Disease | |||
| Diseases of the aortic valve and aorta | |||
| Diseases of the mitral valve | |||
| Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement | |||
| Cardiac Imaging and Non-invasive Stress Testing | |||
| Principles of Exercise Treadmill Testing | |||
| Nuclear Cardiology: Principles | |||
| Nuclear Cardiology: Practical applications | |||
| Introduction to echocardiography | |||
| Evaluation of Pericardial Diseases / Stress Echocardiography | |||
| Echocardiography for the boards | |||
| Trans-esophageal echocardiography | |||
| Basic MR Principles I | |||
| Basic MR Principles II | |||
| Myocardial Viability | |||
| Pulmonary Vascular Disease | |||
| Pulmonary hypertension | |||
| Pulmonary thromboembolic disease | |||
| Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases | |||
| Myocarditis and Pericarditis | |||
| Cardiac Amyloidosis | |||
| Congestive Heart Failure | |||
| Chronic heart failure: diagnosis, etiologies, and treatment | |||
| Treatment of decompensated heart failure | |||
| Pre-transplant evaluation | |||
| Intra-aortic balloon pumps | |||
| Periperal Vascular Disease | |||
| Peripheral Arterial Disease | |||
| Lymphedema | |||
| Congenital Heart Disease | |||
| Overview | |||
| Issues in Congenital Heart Disease for the Adult Cardiologist | |||
| Surgical Therapies for Congenital Heart Disease | |||
| Cardiac Surgery | |||
| Valvular sugery (see Valvular Heart Disease) | |||
| LVAD therapy | |||
| Surgical options for heart failure | |||
| Cardiac Transplantation | |||
| Introduction to Cardiac Transplantation | |||
| Pre-transplant Evaluation | |||
| Post Transplant Care | |||
| Immunosuppresive Management | |||
| Consultative Cardiology | |||
| Introduction to consultative cardiology | |||
| Care of the post-cardiac surgery patient | |||
| Pre-operative cardiac evaluation | |||
| Special Topics | |||
| The cardiovascular physical examination | |||
| Cardiac Auscultory Skills Workshop | |||
| Cardiovascular Paliative and End-of-Life Care | |||
| Cardiovascular Pharmacology | |||
| Cardiovascular Disease in Pregnancy | |||
| Cardiovascular Trauma | |||
| Cerebrovascular Disease | |||