Rotation Descriptions 

CARDIOLOGY ROTATIONS

Clinical Cardiology Rotation 

The general cardiology rotation is the rotation where the fellows spend the majority of their time with direct patient interaction and serves as the cornerstone of developing the fellows clinical general cardiology knowledge and application of such skills in clinical practice. Fellows will receive a broad introduction to the evaluation and management of a wide variety of diseases related to vast field of cardiology and often follow patients from admission to discharge. This broad rotation allows fellows to incorporate knowledge from common inpatient cardiac consultations to more advanced heart failure, coronary, pericardial, electrical, and valvular heart diseases. 

Cardiac Catheterization Rotation 

The cardiac catheterization rotation is an intensive rotation where cardiology fellows spend their time exclusively doing continual cardiac catheterizations. This is a crucial rotation to understand the procedural component in the field of cardiology and to train incoming fellows on the many procedural aspects of cardiology. Core concepts taught are the indications for cardiac catheterization, mastering vascular access, manipulation of intra-cardiac catheters, guide wires, and sheaths, and learning the basics of coronary artery anatomy and angioplasties, pericardiocentesis, intra-aortic balloon pumps, and trans-venous pacing.   

Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Rotation

The Cardiac Care Units encompass 16 CVICU beds and 8 CCU beds. It is a high energy environment where the fellow will provide cardiac care for the most critical patients who require intensive care. We often work directly in conjunction with the critical care team and the cardiothoracic surgical team to manage their post-operative open-heart patients. This provides the experience needed to further your training in the critical aspects of Cardiology. Here, you will learn understanding of advanced hemodynamics, manage left ventricular assist devices, and learn to manage open-heart patients.

Heart Failure Rotation

The Heart Failure Rotation is a rotation for the second and third year fellows where they will spend their time split between Broward Health Medical Center and Cleveland Clinic. The month spent in Cleveland Clinic focuses on advanced heart failure, interpretation of hemodynamics, management of mechanical circulatory support, and cardiac transplantation. The fellows will also spend their time at the main hospital, Broward Health Medical Center, where the fellows will rotate on a heart failure rotation, and see early to late stage heart failure.

Electrophysiology Rotation

Fellows have the opportunity to interact with the Electrophysiology attendings evaluating patients in the inpatient and outpatient setting. They also participate on daily rounds and prepare weekly conferences. BHMC provides various types of advanced mapping and ablation techniques such as radiofrequency and cryo-ablation. Furthermore, comprehensive Electrophysiology procedures including EP diagnostic study, ablation of both supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, placement of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, permanent pacemakers, Watchman left atrial appendage occluders, and cardiac resynchronization devices.

Nuclear Cardiology Rotation

Nuclear medicine clinical training is designed to help fellows become an independent practioner of cardiac nuclear medicine. Training is hands on clinical nuclear medicine working with attending physicians and technologists at BHMC. Fellows are expected to be in charge of the stress lab and often participate in procedures such as exercise treadmill test, MUGA scans, coronary CTAs, and exercise and pharmacologic dobutamine stress echocardiography.