Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Mission & Vision
The mission of our fellowship is to prepare trainees to function at a high level of clinical performance in interventional cardiology and to foster an attitude of lifelong learning and critical thinking skills, as well as a commitment to quality assessment and improvement.
Mission & Vision
The mission of our fellowship is to prepare trainees to function at a high level of clinical performance in interventional cardiology and to foster an attitude of lifelong learning and critical thinking skills, as well as a commitment to quality assessment and improvement.
Program Director’s Welcome
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Interventional Cardiovascular Fellowship Program in affiliation with the Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a year-long, competency-based training program that follows all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education rules and guidelines.
The goal of our training program includes understanding the effectiveness and limitations of coronary interventional procedures in order to select patients and procedure types appropriately, as well as gaining the cognitive knowledge and technical skills needed to perform interventional cardiac procedures at the level of quality attainable through the present state of the art.
There are three principal hospital sites for the training program, each with a high educational impact and a wide range of patients from a comprehensive mix of ethnic and racial origins.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is the primary teaching hospital. The clinical experience is a particular strength at Jackson Memorial and includes private tertiary care as well as care for indigent patients with acute and chronic cardiac disease, advanced heart failure; cardiac surgery; cardiac transplantation and more.
UHealth Tower, a University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Facility, adds a sophisticated and cutting-edge interventional experience within a community-based hospital. At UHealth Tower, physicians on faculty at the UM Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine partner with community physicians to plan and provide care, investigate new treatments still in the clinical research phase and utilize the most advanced technologies available. The case mix at UHealth includes an especially broad range of procedures.
The Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a critical part of the training program where the fellows’ clinical experience includes a mix of local VA Medical Center patients and tertiary care VA patients, as well. The patient population at the VA Medical Center includes patients with fairly advanced vascular disease and high-risk subsets, and complex interventions are performed here.
Fellows are also encouraged to participate in clinical, basic or health services research. Fellow involvement in one or more research projects is a requirement for accreditation of the training program and for the fellow’s board eligibility. Published manuscripts are strongly suggested, but not mandatory. Additionally, it is the strong preference of the training program that cardiology fellows attend one of the national cardiology meetings or one of the national interventional meetings during the course of the year.
-Alexandre C. Ferreira, MD
Program Director’s Welcome
The University of Miami/Jackson Health System Interventional Cardiovascular Fellowship Program in affiliation with the Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a year-long, competency-based training program that follows all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education rules and guidelines.
The goal of our training program includes understanding the effectiveness and limitations of coronary interventional procedures in order to select patients and procedure types appropriately, as well as gaining the cognitive knowledge and technical skills needed to perform interventional cardiac procedures at the level of quality attainable through the present state of the art.
There are three principal hospital sites for the training program, each with a high educational impact and a wide range of patients from a comprehensive mix of ethnic and racial origins.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is the primary teaching hospital. The clinical experience is a particular strength at Jackson Memorial and includes private tertiary care as well as care for indigent patients with acute and chronic cardiac disease, advanced heart failure; cardiac surgery; cardiac transplantation and more.
UHealth Tower, a University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Facility, adds a sophisticated and cutting-edge interventional experience within a community-based hospital. At UHealth Tower, physicians on faculty at the UM Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine partner with community physicians to plan and provide care, investigate new treatments still in the clinical research phase and utilize the most advanced technologies available. The case mix at UHealth includes an especially broad range of procedures.
The Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a critical part of the training program where the fellows’ clinical experience includes a mix of local VA Medical Center patients and tertiary care VA patients, as well. The patient population at the VA Medical Center includes patients with fairly advanced vascular disease and high-risk subsets, and complex interventions are performed here.
Fellows are also encouraged to participate in clinical, basic or health services research. Fellow involvement in one or more research projects is a requirement for accreditation of the training program and for the fellow’s board eligibility. Published manuscripts are strongly suggested, but not mandatory. Additionally, it is the strong preference of the training program that cardiology fellows attend one of the national cardiology meetings or one of the national interventional meetings during the course of the year.
-Alexandre C. Ferreira, MD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year?
3
Duration of Fellowship?
1 year
Clinical Experience
Our Geriatric Medicine (Internal Medicine) Fellowship Program trains fellows in preparation for achieving board certification as a practitioner and educator/researcher of geriatric medicine. The program emphasizes broad clinical exposure, scholarship, self-instruction, development of critical analysis of clinical problems and the ability to consult in complex biological, psychological and social aspects of geriatric assessment and management.
Core Curriculum
A core curriculum forms the backbone of the educational experience at all levels of the training program, with a focus on three general disciplines in cardiology:
1. Continuity Clinic
2. Interventional Cardiac and Peripheral Procedures
3. Research
Goals
Every rotation has its own competency-based curriculum. In general, the goals of the fellows’ training experience, include:
- Being competent in the provision of comprehensive care in patients diagnosed with coronary artery disease requiring coronary angiography and intervention and understanding the effectiveness and limitations of coronary interventional procedures (patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning).
- Learning how to apply cost-conscious, evidence-based strategies to diagnose and manage patients undergoing interventional procedures.
- Learning to function as a member of a multidisciplinary team treating patients undergoing interventional cardiac procedures.
- Participating in family meetings and being an effective communicator
- Understanding of utilization of resources and appropriate levels of care in patients with atrial septal defect; coronary disease; peripheral vascular disease and valvular heart disease.
Your Faculty
Claudia Agustina Martinez Bermudez, MDAssistant Professor, Medicine
Carlos Alfonso, MDAssistant Professor, Clinical Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
Eduardo J. DeMarchena, MDDirector, International Interventional Structural Heart Disease Program
Professor, Medicine and Surgery
Site Supervisor, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program, UHealth Tower
Michael Dyal, MDAssistant Professor, Medicine
Alexandre C. Ferreira, MD
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
Voluntary Professor, Medicine
Cesar Mendoza, MD
Medical Director, Cardiology, Jackson Health System
Alan H. SchobProfessor, Medicine
Site Supervisor, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program, VA Medical Center
Alumni Placements Include:
Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Various private practices
Alumni Placements Include:
Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Various private practices