Customizing Your Education

The Yale Section of Cardiovascular Medicine offers many ways to customize your educational experience beyond the fellowships offered. We want to help you design a training program that gives you the skills and education you need to be successful in your unique career path.

Our curriculum is based on the ACGME’s core competencies: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice. We can provide our full curriculum to interested applicants upon request.

Teaching Conferences

We hold regular teaching conferences to ensure our fellows can learn about all the core topics in cardiovascular medicine from experts in the field. Some of our regularly scheduled conferences include:

• Weekly Cardiology Grand Rounds
• Weekly Cardiology Core Conference
• Monthly Cardiology Case Conferences
• Monthly Basic Science Series
• Monthly Journal Club
• Monthly Clinical Reasoning Lecture
• Weekly ECG conference
  • Bimonthly board review
  • Weekly Conferences:
  • Nuclear Cardiology
  • Cardiac Imaging
  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Echocardiography Cardiac Imaging
  • VA Heart Team Meeting

Below are examples of different training pathways taken by our fellows.

Traditional Cardiology Training

• Internal Medicine Residency (3 years)
• General Clinical Cardiology Fellowship (3 years)

Research Pathways 1

• Internal Medicine Residency (3 years)
• General Clinical Cardiology Fellowship (2-3 years)
• Research Fellowship (1-3 years)

Research Pathways 2

• Internal Medicine Residency (3 years)
• Research Fellowship (1-3 years)
• General Clinical Cardiology Fellowship (2-3 years)

ABIM Research Pathway 1

• Internal Medicine Residency (2 years)
• Research Fellowship (3 years)
• General Clinical Cardiology Fellowship (2-3 years)

ABIM Research Pathway 2

• Internal Medicine Residency (2 years)
• General Clinical Cardiology Fellowship (2-3 years)
• Research Fellowship (3 years)