Electives
Your elective options in University of Minnesota's Cardiovascular Diseases Subspecialty Fellowship Program are outstanding.
Your elective options include:
- Six to 12 months focusing on invasive cardiology — including complex hemodynamics, procedures such as transseptal catheterization and endomyocardial biopsy and clinical invasive investigation
- More training in the clinic
- Six to 12 months in echocardiography, including intensive exposure to transesophageal and stress echocardiography
- Six to 12 months in advanced training in nuclear cardiology, which can fulfill the requirements for licensure by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (This training will include in-depth exposure to physics, radiation safety, radiopharmaceuticals and instrumentation, as well as more experience in reading and interpreting radionuclide angiograms and thallium/sestamibi scintigrams.)
- Six months gaining intensive implantation experience in the pacemaker laboratory
- More clinical experience in peripheral vascular diseases and training in noninvasive testing, imaging techniques and catheter therapies
- Training in adult congenital heart disease
Two years of advanced training and research meeting board eligibility requirements are available in:
- Electrophysiology
- Interventional cardiac catheterization