Conferences

Daily conferences promote self-motivated learning.  Fellows (with a faculty mentor) are responsible for presenting all but the core curriculum conferences. 

• Monday: Conference on graphics (e.g., ECG-related echocardiography, hemodynamics)
• Tuesday: Core curriculum of fundamental topics
• Tuesday evening: Cardiology grand rounds
• Wednesday: Medical grand rounds
• Thursday: Review of ongoing research or a morbidity and mortality
• Friday: Joint conference with members of the Interventional fellowship
• a journal club
• pro-and-con debate

In preparing for these conferences, fellows learn to: pose a question relevant to one of their patients; research the relevant scientific literature; address the problem selected; field questions from their peers; and to reach a conclusion.  These sessions are also intended to provide trainees with an appreciation of self-motivated learning and promote personal enrichment through a lifetime of learning.