Advanced heart failure fellowship clinical rotations at Tufts Medical Center + Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Fellows spend 8 months at Tufts Medical Center and 4 months at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, completing a variety of clinical rotations.
Tufts Medical Center rotations:
- Inpatient care: 8 weeks
- Outpatient clinic: 13 weeks
- Cardiac care unit (CCU): 4 weeks
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, amyloid, cardio-oncology and sarcoidosis clinics: 4 weeks
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET): 2 weeks
- Elective: 2 weeks
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center rotations:
- Inpatient care: 8 weeks
- Outpatient clinic: 2 weeks
- Pulmonary hypertension: 2 weeks
- Electrophysiology: 2 weeks
- Palliative care: 2 weeks
Fellows cover the inpatient service at Tufts Medical Center for 10 weekends during the year. During this time, they also manage the LVAD emergency pager. Fellows are not on overnight call. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, fellows cover the LVAD and ECMO pagers while managing the inpatient service.
