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Hello everyone,
Fourth year medical student here that is very interested in Cardiology. Furthermore, I would like to be involved in the procedural aspects of Cardiology, particularly the structural part. I'm a Canadian medical student but am considering coming to the US for my cardiology fellowship. I have two questions:
1. Would it be possible to work as an interventional cardiologist without taking STEMI call? For example, I know there are combined interventional and structural cardiology fellowship, and I've also seen solely interventional and solely structural fellowships. If one were to pursue just a structural fellowship, what would they employability be like and can they work at a center with a cath lab and not take STEMI call? Does anyone know of staff who practice this? The obvious reason I'm asking this is to avoid STEMI call for the rest of my life.
2. As more and more indications for transcatheter valve interventions increases (EARLY TAVR trial, TAVR UNLOAD trial) - I suspect the workload of structural cardiologists is going to increase immensely in the next decade. I'm wondering if we will ever get to a point where cardiology fellows graduate with the competency to perform these procedures without a dedicated fellowship - ie similar to GI where fellows graduate with the competency to perform scopes and various other procedures.
I apologize if my questions insinuate that I want to take the easiest path possible. I'm a medical student that is slightly on the older side compared to my classmates and I am strongly considering lifestyle and length of training when choosing my specialty.
Many thanks and I welcome any thoughts/suggestions!
Fourth year medical student here that is very interested in Cardiology. Furthermore, I would like to be involved in the procedural aspects of Cardiology, particularly the structural part. I'm a Canadian medical student but am considering coming to the US for my cardiology fellowship. I have two questions:
1. Would it be possible to work as an interventional cardiologist without taking STEMI call? For example, I know there are combined interventional and structural cardiology fellowship, and I've also seen solely interventional and solely structural fellowships. If one were to pursue just a structural fellowship, what would they employability be like and can they work at a center with a cath lab and not take STEMI call? Does anyone know of staff who practice this? The obvious reason I'm asking this is to avoid STEMI call for the rest of my life.
2. As more and more indications for transcatheter valve interventions increases (EARLY TAVR trial, TAVR UNLOAD trial) - I suspect the workload of structural cardiologists is going to increase immensely in the next decade. I'm wondering if we will ever get to a point where cardiology fellows graduate with the competency to perform these procedures without a dedicated fellowship - ie similar to GI where fellows graduate with the competency to perform scopes and various other procedures.
I apologize if my questions insinuate that I want to take the easiest path possible. I'm a medical student that is slightly on the older side compared to my classmates and I am strongly considering lifestyle and length of training when choosing my specialty.
Many thanks and I welcome any thoughts/suggestions!