The Structural Heart Disease Fellowship Program at Borgess Medical Center is a one-year program designed as a fifth year of advanced interventional training. The Fellowship Program is affiliated with Michigan State University. The program offers one position per year (July 1 - June 30). The role is clinic-based and there are no inpatient responsibilities. The SHD Fellowship at Michigan State University/Ascension Borgess Hospital offers one fellow the opportunity for a 5th year of Advanced Interventional Fellowship training focusing on high risk PCI's like CHIP & CTO, and Structural Heart Disease interventions like Valvuloplasty, TAVR, MitraClip, Watchman, Angiovac and Alcohol Septal Ablation. Advanced training is also provided in peripheral vascular interventions, carotid artery stenting and angiography, pacemaker implantation (optional), Rotablator atherectomy, Angiojet thrombectomy, intravascular ultrasound, physiologic assessment of lesions using Doppler and pressure measurement techniques, acute MI management and interventions, training distal protection techniques, and a variety of other newer technical modalities. The patient population in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory allows the fellow to gain knowledge of multiple manifestations of structural heart disease. Fellows rotate through the catheterization laboratory for one year. The objective is to make all fellows’ educational experiences more uniform from month to month. Central to the teaching mission is the use of the fellow’s physical diagnostic skills in concert with the array of invasive and non-invasive, diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available. Fellows should become facile with reading electrocardiograms, chest radiographs, hemodynamic tracings and coronary angiograms, vascular angiography and the recognition of basic echocardiographic anatomy. Ascension Borgess Hospital is actively involved in five to ten basic and clinical cardiovascular research studies per year. The fellows are given ample opportunity to become meaningful participants in research on new devices and techniques in both the pre-clinical and clinical phases. It is anticipated that each fellow will participate in one or more research projects during his/her fellowship. The fellowship also provides a variety of other teaching and learning opportunities including formal didactic sessions, weekly clinical cardiovascular catheterization conferences, monthly journal club, a bi-monthly M&M conference designed to improve outcomes, troubleshoot problems and increase proficiency, and other CME opportunities.
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