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The USF Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program only accepts applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) Fellowship Application Site.
Registration with ERAS is required.
*Please note, Interventional Cardiology is a December-cycle program. Applicants can begin to apply in ERAS near the end of November 2022, to match for the 2024-2025 academic year. Interviews are typically held in February.
The USF Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program is a one-year program. We comply with all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requirements, in addition to following the guidelines and recommendations of the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) COCATS.
Our Mission:
The mission of our USF Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program is to develop highly competent practitioners with a commitment to lifelong learning. We accomplish this through the creation of a scholarly environment and training in a wide range of procedures involving coronary interventions, complex and contemporary, with participation in peripheral vascular interventions, exposure to structural heart disease and therapies.
Our Aims
The Interventional Cardiology fellowship training is designed to provide the fellow with COCATS Level III training. Specific curricular milestones for training in Coronary Angiography and Intervention and Peripheral Vascular Angiography and Intervention, as they relate to the Core Competencies promulgated by the ACGME, are adopted as outlined in the COCATS 4 Task Force 10 document. Additionally, specific curricular milestones for Ambulatory and Longitudinal Care, as well as Research, are also included.
In order to ensure the appropriate training of the Interventional Cardiology fellow the training program will ensure that a minimum of 400 interventional procedures are performed per year and that the Interventional fellow has the opportunity to acquire skill in the performance of a minimum of 250 coronary interventions.
The Interventional Fellowship will be comprised of 12 months, beginning each July and ending in June for each academic year. The 12 months will be divided into 2-month blocks, where fellows rotate between the North Campus and South Campus. The North Campus is comprised of the James A. Haley VA Hospital, which has inpatient and outpatient procedural volume, vascular interventional exposure as well as outpatient interventional clinic experience. The South Campus is comprised of Tampa General Hospital, which has inpatient and outpatient/elective procedural volume, emergency room and STEMI experiences, and structural heart disease exposure.
Didactic learning and educational conferences are shared between both campuses. There is a robust educational curriculum throughout the course of the year. There are both mandatory and elective conference opportunities for interventional fellows. Interventional fellows are required to participate in the conference at their rotation location (North or South) and, in some cases, lead the conferences which can be either topic based, or patient/case based. The conferences are attended by cath lab staff, attendings, and general fellows (especially those interested in interventional cardiology). Attendance to the mandatory conferences is taken and recorded.
The Educational Conference schedule continues throughout the entire year. The standard frame of the educational schedule is as follows (the conferences marked with an asterisk * are mandatory):
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Electronic evaluation forms are used by the faculty as one of the ways to assess the fellows. These evaluations have been devised to assess the aspects of the ACGME’s Six Core Competencies: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Professionalism, Systems-Based Practice and Practice-Based Learning and Improvement. Fellows receive written and verbal feedback at the end of each rotation from the faculty preceptor and fellows are given the opportunity to review and ask questions.