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General Cardiology Disease Fellowship Curriculum

Below you will find sample schedules for the first and second year of the U-M Medical School Department of Internal Medicine Division of Cardiology Fellowship. The third year varies depending on the research or subspecialty interest of each fellow. Fellows often use this year to pursue investigational research, but in the case of fellows pursuing careers in intervention or imaging, they may begin clinical training during this year.

In addition to the rotations below, fellows maintain continuity clinics at Michigan Medicine and the VA Health System.

  • Cardiology Consults
  • Cardiac Catheterization
  • Cardiac Electrophysiology (VA)
  • Outpatient Heart Failure/Transplantation
  • Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
  • Night Float
  • Echocardiography
  • Nuclear Cardiology
  • Research
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease
  • Cardiology Consults (VA)
  • Cardiac Catheterization (VA)
  • Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Cardiac CT/MRI
  • Cardiovascular Surgery ICU
  • Inpatient Heart Failure/Transplant
  • Nuclear Cardiology
  • Echocardiography (VA)
  • Vascular and Preventive Cardiology
  • Research
  • Electives
Clinical Facilities

Michigan Medicine includes the U-M Medical School, with its Faculty Group Practice and many research laboratories; North Campus Research Complex, the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers, which includes University Hospital, Frankel Cardiovascular Center, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, 120 outpatient clinics and approximately 40 health centers.

Its hospitals have 925 licensed beds. As a tertiary care center, UMHS has 179 intensive care unit (ICU) beds, giving it one of the highest numbers of ICU beds in the country. UMHS is also a high-volume surgical center with a total of 66 operating rooms.

Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor

The Veterans Affairs (VA) Ann Arbor Healthcare System is a major referral institution within the Veterans Health Agency. It is responsible for providing primary, secondary, and tertiary care to veterans residing in the lower peninsula of Michigan and also Northwestern Ohio. It operates 105 acute care beds and 40 Community Living Center (extended care) beds. More than 550,000 outpatient visits are made to its facilities yearly.