Rotations

University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC) Rotations:

Cardiac Catheterization: Fellows learn the principles and techniques of diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization, including hemodynamic assessment, coronary angiography, and management of acute coronary syndromes with procedures like stenting.

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Fellows serve as the primary provider for critically ill cardiac patients, focusing on managing cardiogenic shock, post-procedure complications, and patients requiring mechanical circulatory support like ECMO and Impella.

Echocardiography: This rotation focuses on learning the acquisition and interpretation of various echocardiography modalities, including transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress studies, to evaluate cardiac structure, valve function, and myocardial ischemia.

Electrophysiology: Fellows learn to diagnose and manage atrial and ventricular arrhythmias through ECG interpretation, provocative testing, and inpatient consultation, while also gaining experience with cardiac devices like pacemakers.

Heart Failure/Transplant: On this service, fellows manage patients with advanced heart failure, including those being evaluated for or who have received heart transplants and mechanical ventricular assist devices.

Inpatient General Cardiology - U Cards 1/Consult Service: Fellows manage a wide range of common cardiovascular issues by overseeing the primary inpatient service and providing consultations for other medical teams.

MRI: This rotation provides an introduction to the acquisition and interpretation of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

CT: Fellows learn to acquire and interpret cardiac computed tomography scans to assess coronary anatomy.

Minneapolis VA Rotations:

Cardiac Catheterization: Fellows learn to perform and interpret fundamental diagnostic procedures, including right and left heart catheterizations and angiograms.

Inpatient Cardiology: Fellows take on a leadership role, managing a team of residents and interns to care for inpatients with acute coronary syndromes, arrhythmias, and heart failure.

Electrophysiology: Fellows learn to diagnose and manage atrial and ventricular arrhythmias through ECG interpretation, provocative testing, and inpatient consultation, while also gaining experience with cardiac devices like pacemakers.

Echocardiography: This rotation focuses on learning the acquisition and interpretation of various echocardiography modalities, including transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress studies, to evaluate cardiac structure, valve function, and myocardial ischemia.

Nuclear Cardiology: This rotation involves supervising cardiac stress tests and learning to interpret nuclear imaging scans to evaluate for myocardial ischemia.

VA Consults: The fellow is responsible for performing and staffing all inpatient cardiology consultations throughout the hospital.

Methodist Hospital

Methodist Hospital Imaging: This rotation offers advanced training experience in both transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, typically for senior fellows.

Regions Hospital

Regions Hospital Inpatient Cardiology Consults: Fellows gain broad experience managing a wide variety of hospitalized patients, including general cardiology inpatients, ICU patients, and post-cardiac surgery consultations.

Regions Nuclear Cardiology: This rotation involves supervising cardiac stress tests and learning to interpret nuclear imaging scans to evaluate for myocardial ischemia.

Continuity Clinic (multiple sites):

Continuity Clinics: Fellows provide longitudinal outpatient care for patients one half-day per week throughout their training, rotating to different faculty clinics every 6 months to gain diverse ambulatory experience.