| Institution: | 1. Department of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan;2. Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;3. Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas;4. Department of Interventional Cardiology, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York, New York, New York;5. The Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois;6. Cardiovascular Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;7. Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri;8. Cardiology Division, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington;9. NorthShore University Health System, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois |
| Abstract: | Over the last decade, structural heart disease interventions have emerged as a new field in interventional cardiology. Currently, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited interventional cardiology fellowship programs in the United States provide high‐quality and well established training curriculum in coronary and peripheral interventions, but training in structural interventions remains in its infancy. The current survey seeks to collect relevant information and assess the opinion of interventional cardiology program directors in ACGME‐accredited institutions that are actively involved in structural interventional training. Our study describes the actual number of structural procedures performed by interventional cardiology fellows in ACGME‐accredited programs, the form of the structural training today and the suggestions from program directors who are actively trying to integrate structural training in the interventional cardiology fellowship programs. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
