Interventional Fellows
Educational Opportunities
Formal Instruction:
Mentored Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum reviews the core knowledge base in invasive and interventional cardiology using a "mentored tutorial" approach. The material is presented by an attending from the website created at UVa for this purpose and is available online at http://www.CardioVillage.com/. This material may be previewed or reviewed at a later time by the fellows. Angiographic review sessions will focus on the technical and interpretative aspects of coronary angiography, aortography and ventriculography. This session consists of a review with an attending of interesting angiograms demonstrating important aspects of coronary angiography and ventriculography.Topics covered during the mentored tutorials include:
- Introduction to the catheterization laboratory
- Basic hemodynamics
- Angiography: views, catheters, special considerations
- Complications of catheterization
- Cardiac outputs and shunts
- Ventriculography
- Anomalous coronary arteries
- Aortography and aortic insuffuciency
- Aortic stenosis
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Vascular access and closure
- Mitral valve disease
- Coronary collaterals
- Renal failure
- Pharmacology
- Shock, CHF, and transplantation
- Coronary physiology
- Radiation safety and imaging
- Advanced coronary angiography
- Pericardial and restrictive cardiomyopathy
- Congenital heart disease
- Miscellaneous hemodynamics
- Complications of Acute MI
Conferences:
The Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the University of Virginia offers a wide variety of educational conferences for the Interventional Fellows. Three major educational conferences are:- Cardiology Grand Rounds
- Cath Lab Teaching Conference
- Cath Conference The Interventional Fellow will have primary oversight responsibility for the Friday morning Cath Conference, which will consist of cases evaluated and presented by the cardiac cath fellows.
- Interventional Conference is an organized, didactic conference providing the core knowledge base for interventional cardiology and is prepared and presented primarily by the interventional fellows. In addition to a comprehensive and formal presentation including a review of the pertinent literature, specific cases and angiograms are also presented.
Additional Conferences include:
- Non-Invasive Cardiology Conference (12 noon on Wednesday)
- Internal Medicine Grand Rounds (12:30 p.m. on Monday)
- monthly General Cardiology Journal Club
- bimonthly Cath Lab Research Conference (Wednesday 7 a.m.)
- Interventional Basic Research Conference (Tuesday 7 a.m.)
Cardiology Grand Rounds
Each Tuesday from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. there is Cardiology Grand Rounds. This conference consists of an invited speaker presenting an update, review or novel topic in cardiology. Both basic science and clinical cardiology topics are represented by this conference. The guest speakers generally have been nationally and internationally recognized leaders in cardiology but also includes local faculty. In addition, departing cardiology fellows including Interventional Fellows are invited to present at Cardiology Grand Rounds.
Cath Lab Teaching Conference
Each Thursday morning between 0700 and 0800 there is a Cath Lab Teaching Conference designed specifically for the educational needs of all diagnostic and interventional fellows. The purpose of this conference is to systematically review the core knowledge base that must be mastered by both diagnostic and interventional fellows before completion of the program. This conference is clinically oriented and consists of three elements rotated throughout the year: 1) Review of core curriculum, 2) Angiographic review sessions, and 3) Interventional conference.
Cath Conference
A division wide Cath Conference is held at 7:00 a.m. each Friday in the Camp Heart Center Auditorium. This is one of the major teaching conferences of the division. Attendance by all cardiology fellows and Interventional Fellows is mandatory. Cardiology attendings, nurse practitioners, medical students, housestaff, radiology students, anesthesiologists, cardiac surgeons and other health care professionals attend this conference.Each week, 2 cases are identified by the Interventional Fellows. These cases represent the entire spectrum of cardiac disease including coronary, valvular and congenital heart disease. A diagnostic fellow presents the relevant history, physical examination, and noninvasive studies including MRI or CT scans. All catheterization data including hemodynamics and angiography are critically reviewed during the conference. It is expected that the presenting fellow will have reviewed the relevant literature and is prepared to discuss the case and its management in depth.
Interventional Conference
The Interventional Conference is held on the second Thursday of each month. Four times each year, this conference serves as an extensive review of the morbidity and mortality for invasive and interventional cardiology at UVa and the interventional fellows are extensively involved in this conference.Topics covered during interventional conference include:
- Vascular biology
- Platelet inhibitors
- Coronary Atherectomy
- Calcified Lesions
- Ischemic Complications of PTCI
- Coronary Perforation Complicating PTCI
- Bifurcation and Ostial Lesions
- Saphenous Vein Graft Interventions
- Multivessel PTCI
- Pharmacology of PTCI
- Unprotected Left Main Intervention
- Chronic Total Occlusion
- Percutaneous Intervention of Cardiac Allograft
- Vasculopathy
- Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis
- Primary Angioplasty
Additional Conferences
Additional conferences are available to the Interventional Fellows as follows:
National Meetings
Interventional Fellows are supported to attend one major national meeting of their choice including the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology or the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.