Advanced heart failure fellowship clinical rotations at Tufts Medical Center + Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
We have overhauled our curriculum to increase elective time and allow fellows to tailor their experience to their specific interests. The new curriculum is divided into core clinical rotations (40 weeks) and individualized learning tracks (8 weeks).
At the start of the year, each fellow will be paired with a faculty mentor with whom they will develop the plan for their learning track. This plan will include clinical experiences and career enrichment experiences designed around your individual goals.
Core clinical rotations (40 weeks)
- Inpatient: 12 weeks
- Outpatient: 12 weeks
- CCU: 4 weeks
- HCM/amyloid/cardio-onc/sarcoid: 4 weeks
- Pulmonary hypertension: 2 weeks
- Electrophysiology: 2 weeks
- Cath lab: 4 weeks
Individualized learning tracks (8 weeks, in two 4-week blocks). We encourage you to work with your faculty mentor to design your elective time around the experiences that matter most to you. Some ideas are listed below, but you can customize your own experience.
- Transplant and immunology track
- Clinical experience: Waitlist management, donor call, HLA lab, transplant infectious disease
- Career enrichment experience: Observe organ procurement and transplant surgeries, transplant-related QI/research project, transplant protocol retreat
- Durable MCS track
- Clinical experience: VAD clinic, invasive hemodynamic VAD optimizations, VAD implant surgery observation,
- Career enrichment experience: VAD QI/research project, VAD protocol retreat
- Cardiogenic shock/temporary MCS track
- Clinical experience: shock team consults, eCPR participation
- Career enrichment experience: cardiogenic shock QI/research project, organize MCS case conference
