Aims

  1. Overall Goal. To guide and train fellows toward mastery of the requisite skills and attitudes to evolve into specialists capable of providing competent, compassionate, and cost-effective care for patients with advanced heart disease.
  2. Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity. To attract and train board eligible/board certified Cardiologists from diverse backgrounds with demonstrated humanistic, academic, and scholarly skills to deliver culturally sensitive, patient-centered advanced heart failure care.
  3. Education and Mentoring. To meet the individualized educational and mentoring needs of our trainees to prepare them for a career in advanced heart failure and heart transplant in academic, public, or private sector settings.
  4. Professionalism. To promote a professional and collegial training environment that fosters the learners’ ability to progress in all educational milestones covered by the six core competencies.
  5. Learning. To ensure that trainees will progress in their understanding of basic physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, natural history, diagnostic methods and therapeutic procedures that are critical in the evaluation and management of patients with heart failure and those who have undergone heart transplantation and/or mechanical circulatory support. This will be accomplished through clinical, simulated, didactic, and mentoring experiences.
  6. Scholarship. To inspire fellows to engage in scholarship to advance the field of advanced heart failure and transplant medicine.
  7. Fellows as Educators. To participate in medical education initiatives for students, residents, and allied health professionals and to encourage lifelong learning.
  8. Program Development. To work collaboratively with program leadership, mentors, and faculty, to continuously enhance the strength and effectiveness of the training program.
  9. Personal Growth. To foster well-being and mindfulness among our fellows and within our workplace community in a collegial, team-oriented learning environment.

Accreditation

Continued ACGME accreditation with no citations