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Training Program - Pediatric Cardiology
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Welcome Message from Dr. Sable
Children’s National Medical Center will be participating in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP www.nrmp.org) Pediatric Cardiology Specialty Match for those applying for fellowship beginning July 1, 2010. This is the eighth year the match will be used to select fellows in Pediatric Cardiology. Dates for the 2010 match should be available soon but should not change significantly from last years’ dates:
| Match Startup |
January 20, 2009 |
| Rank Order List Opens |
April 21, 2009 |
| Rank Order List Closes |
May 26, 2009 |
| Match Day |
June 16, 2009 |
Children's National will be accepting three fellows to begin in July 2010. We plan to start interviewing select applicants with completed applications in January and will continue until April 2009. The application should be completed and sent to Children's National by February 1, 2009.
The Children’s National Heart Institute, led by The Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dr. Richard Jonas emphasizes the importance of care of children with cardiovascular disease at Children’s National Medical Center. All facets of medical and surgical cardiac care are offered at Children’s National. The recent addition of Dr. David Wessel to our Pediatric Critical Intensive Care Unit ensures our expanding role as a national and international leader in pediatric cardiology care, education, and research.
If you have any questions, please contact our fellowship coordinator, Brenda Roach at 202-476-2315 or cardiologyfellows@cnmc.org. An application is available by email, if you wish to submit electronically. If you would like an application sent to you via email, please contact Mrs. Roach. A curriculum vitae, a personal statement, a recent photograph, and at least two letters of reference must accompany all applications, paper-based or electronic.
Sincerely,
Craig A. Sable, MD
Director, Echocardiography and Fellowship Training
Children’s National Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics,
George Washington University Medical School
csable@cnmc.org
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Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a personal statement, a recent photograph, and at least two letters of reference must accompany all applications, paper-based or electronic.
Cardiology Fellowship Application Form (PDF)
Mail applications to:
Craig A. Sable, MD
Director, Fellowship Training
Division of Cardiology
Children's National Medical Center
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010
Phone: (202)476-2020
Fax: (202)476-5700
Email: csable@cnmc.org
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Children's pediatric cardiology fellowship training program at Children's National Medical Center is approved by the ACGME and involves clinical, academic, and research training over a 36 month period.
Clinical
Twenty months are devoted to clinical training and include rotations in cardiology inpatient service (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology Ward, and Inpatient Consultations), Cardiovascular Surgery, the Echocardiography Laboratory, the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, on the Electrophysiology/Arrhythmia Service and on elective. Pediatric cardiology fellows and attendings work side by side with pediatric intensivists and cardiovascular surgeons to manage postoperative patients. Skills in echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, and electrophysiology are taught with direct supervision by cardiology attendings. Fellows participate in a weekly outpatient continuity clinic throughout the three years of training. In addition, outpatient training is also available at outreach satellite clinics.
Academic
The academic program includes didactic bedside teaching, formal fellow lectures, cardiology department conferences and hospital-wide conferences. Weekly cardiology conferences include intake rounds and cardiology/cardiovascular surgery catheterization conference. Monthly conferences include catheterization lab complication conference, surgical morbidity and mortality conference, research works in progress, pathology conference, fetal board and journal club. Fellows also can attend a special lecture series focused on preparing fellows for a successful career in academic medicine. All fellows have an opportunity to attend at least two major national scientific meetings. A yearly stipend is provided for purchase of books and journals. A new learning center provides direct access to the latest educational material on computer and videotape.
Research
Research training occupies 16 of the 36 months including a 12-month block in the second year of fellowship. Opportunities for clinical and basic science research are available with full-time Children's faculty in cardiology and other departments. Fellows are provided support to prepare manuscripts for presentation at national meetings and publication in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to research opportunities at Children's, fellows become involved in projects at the National Institutes of Health in nearby Bethesda, MD. Recent fellow research projects there included work in three-dimensional echocardiography, cardiotoxicity of HIV medications, transgenic mouse model of cono-truncal defects, pharmacology of antiarhythmic medications, magnetic resonance imaging, molecular biology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and gene transfer in pulmonary arteries.
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