Weill Cornell Cardiology Fellowship

Instructions to Applicants

Applications for July 2012 Weill Cornell Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship will be accepted after December 1, 2010 with a deadline of February 1,2011.

We are part of the Medical Specialties Matching Program at the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), which means that on January 2011, registration begins with NRMP at www.nrmp.org. Click on specialty match (Cardiovascular Diseases) or call (202) 828-0566 for more information.

Fellowship Time Line (NRMP dates TBA)

• Approximately March 1, 2011: notification to you about interviews
• March - April 2011: interviews at Weill Cornell
• April 8, 2011: the earliest date for you to file a rank order list on the NRMP web site.
• June 3, 2011: deadline for you to file rank order list on the NRMP web site by 9 pm EST
• June 17, 2011: match results announced at 12 noon EST

Use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) through your Dean's Office and join the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).

You may contact Lisa Brooks, Fellowship Coordinator, by email ljb2002@med.cornell.edu with any questions or you may phone (212-746-2218).

The NRMP Program Code is: 1492141F0

Please comply with the following guidelines when completing your application: (Only applications with all requested materials will be reviewed)

1. Completed ERAS application: ( If you have been elected to AOA, include this in the application under "Medical Educ.", field "Did you receive the Alpha Omega Alpha award?")
2. Letters of recommendation from three faculty members who have personal knowledge of your professional and personal qualifications. One of these letters should come from your program director or from the service chief under whom you have last served; (more than 3 letters is ok!). We do not require a Dean's letter
3. A photo is appreciated, but not required.
4. Providing USMLE scores is voluntary.

International Applicants

Applicants should have substantial research experiences, outstanding letters of recommendation from their clinical and/or research supervisors in the United States and valid ECFMG certification. Though there is no specific board score requirement, a higher score holds greater weight. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center sponsors J-1 visas. You will be responsible for retaining an immigration lawyer and for all associated administrative costs. Use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) through the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG); and join the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for subspecialty in Cardiovascular Disease. Applicants will be considered for interview on the basis of their overall record.

Fellowship Overview

The Division of Cardiology offers a structured three or four year program of training designed to prepare highly qualified candidates for careers in clinical and investigative cardiology. Intensive experience under close supervision of full-time staff is provided in all major clinical and laboratory aspects of contemporary cardiology. From the beginning of training one half day per week is spent working under careful supervision in the Outpatient Cardiology Group Practice. In addition, each fellow is expected to participate in one or more areas of ongoing research.

During the first two clinical years, all fellows rotate through the cardiac catheterization laboratory, echocardiography, electrophysiology, graphics (ECG, stress testing, ambulatory monitoring, pacemaker analysis), and nuclear cardiology laboratories. Clinical rotations include the coronary care unit, telemetry unit, consultation service, and Memorial Hospital consultation service. The third year provides mentored and more intensive experience in a selected area of clinical or basic research, or a laboratory skill. For those training in invasive cardiology, both the third year of the clinical fellowship and the fourth separately accredited year in Interventional Cardiology are required to become fully proficient in angioplasty and other interventional techniques. For those training in electrophysiology, the third year of the clinical fellowship and a fourth year encompass a separate ACGME-accredited fellowship in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Noninvasive fellows spend the 3rd & 4th years of fellowship in clinical & research projects in their particular area of interest (echocardiography, TEE, CT, MRI, Nuclear or PET Scanning).

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is an 800 bed academic center on the east side of mid-Manhattan. We serve a tertiary care referral population (in cardiology mainly for cardiac catheterization, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, and cardiac surgery), and a community-based population. The new Greenberg Pavilion includes state-of-the-art coronary care and telemetry/step down units on the fourth floor adjacent to Cardiology's new invasive and noninvasive laboratories, our outpatient area and non-invasive laboratories, and Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Consultations are seen at Memorial Hospital, a 600 bed cancer facility, and at Hospital for Special Surgery, a 300 bed rheumatology/orthopedics hospital, both located immediately across the street from NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. We have academic and referral relationships with a number of hospitals throughout the New York metropolitan area, which constitute our Network. Although fellows do not rotate at these other network hospitals, they are responsible for the care of referred patients when they arrive at Cornell.

Current clinical laboratory directors of the Division of Cardiology include:

• Dr. Bruce B. Lerman, Chief of Cardiology and Director, Electrophysiology Laboratory
• Dr. Richard B. Devereux, Echocardiography Laboratory
• Dr. Paul Kligfield, Cardiac Graphics Laboratory, Cardiac Health Center
• Dr. David Miller, Coronary Care Unit
• Dr. Franklin Wong, Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory
• Dr. S. Chiu Wong, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
• Dr. Erica C. Jones, Inpatient Telemetry Unit

Current basic laboratory directors of the Division of Cardiology include:

• Dr. Bruce Lerman, Cheif of Cardiology
• Dr. Ann Foley, Stem Cell and Developmental Biology
• Dr. Cathy J. Hatcher, Cardiac Regeneration and Development
• Dr. David Christini, Computational Electrophysiology

The Fellowship Program of the Division of Cardiology is organized by the executive committee:

• Dr. Bruce Lerman, Division Chief
• Dr. Erica Jones, Fellowship Program Director
• Dr. Peter Okin, Director, Clinical Affairs
• Dr. Jim Cheung
• Dr. Robert Kim

Conferences

Monday
Cardiology Grand Rounds

Tuesday
EP Journal Club/Core Courses
Fellows' Case Discussions

Wednesday
Clinical Conference: case presentations with clinical management discussed by divisional staff
Clinical Roundtable

Thursday
Catheterization Conference, with review of cath films by cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery staff; Fellows' Journal Club
Prevention & Management Conference Imaging Conference

Friday
EP Case Review
Echo, Graphics, Nuclear, and EP and Curriculum Conferences in rotation

Fellowship years 1 and 2 each: Cardiac cath (2 months); Echo (1.5); Nuclear (1); Graphics (1); EP (1.0); CCU (1); Telemetry (1); Consultations (1); Memorial (1); research (0.5); vacation (1)

Fellowship year 3 & 4: 11 months of intensive mentored experience in one area: in all cases, substantial research is incorporated into each year. The 12th month is vacation.

• Cath Lab (includes some PTCA but full training in invasive techniques requires a 4th year; possibly 5th year)
• Echo (includes TEE)
• EP (includes RFA, pacemaker and ICD insertion - full training requires a 4th year)
• CCU
• Nuclear Cardiology
• Basic Science Laboratory
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Advanced Cardiac Imaging (CT/MRI/PET)

Appointments for intensive third year experience in specific laboratories are subject to individual approval by laboratory directors and the Division Chief, usually early in fellowship year 2.

There are ordinarily 6 fellows in each year.