Curriculum: Conferences

During the summer, July 1 through Labor Day, the regular conferences are replaced by a set of introductory lectures presented by the faculty in order to help the first-year fellows adjust to their new role as cardiology fellows. Following Labor Day, the regular conference series resumes with an average of seven hours of conference per week. Conferences include:

Core conference (25/year)

Noon report (10/Year)

Echo conference (30/year)

Electrophysiology conference (10/year)

Nuclear conference (10/year)

MRI/CT (10/year)

Interdisciplinary conference (10/year)

Electrocardiography conference (10/year)

Clinical case conference (30/year)

Cardiac intensive care morbidity and mortality review (10/year)

Journal club (10/year)

Guidelines and landmark articles (10/year)

Medical grand rounds (4/year)

Combined cardiothoracic surgery and cardiology (10/year)

Interdisciplinary hypertension conference (10/year)

Pre-grand rounds and cardiology grand rounds (10/year)

Cardiology symposium (one/year)