This rotation involves two blocks in the first year, three blocks in the second year and four blocks in the third year. During this rotation, fellows are responsible for pre-procedure assessment, they are the primary operators from groin access until the end of the diagnostic procedure, they participate as a secondary (and sometimes primary operators) in the intervention as well. Fellows are able to do an average of one hundred cases during their first year of fellowship, and many of them perform more than four hundred cases by the end of the fellowship.
Fellow assigned to this rotation are expected to collect and present interesting cases for Tuesday morning conference when discussion with the faculty about each case gives high quality teaching.
During this rotation fellows will have exposure to:
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