Curriculum

The physician serves twelve months in the catheterization laboratory as an interventional fellow within the Division of Cardiology.

Equipment in the cath lab includes state-of-the-art physiologic recorders and digital cineangiographic imaging systems. The laboratory performs routine coronary angiography, simple and complex coronary angioplasty, intra-coronary ultrasound, intra-aortic balloon insertions, primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction, thrombectomy, mechanical rotational atherectomy (MRA, Rotablator), intra-coronary stenting, mitral and aortic valvuloplasty procedures, endomyocardial biopsy, and peripheral and neuro-vascular interventions. Physiologic measurements, including coronary blood flow and vasodilator reserve, are available.

The interventional fellow will be assigned to a continuity clinic in order to fulfill the ABIM requirements. To graduate from the fellowship, fellows must complete the ACGME-accredited year and meet cath and PTCA criteria

• Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and stenting: 300 or more PTCA/stent cases
• Coronary devices used at Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital
  • Intracoronary ultrasound
  • Thrombectomy
  • Brachytherapy
  • Rotablator
  • Frontrunner
  • Stents
  • Distal protection devices

Other experience gained during fellowship includes

• Peripheral angiography and intervention
• Pericardiocentesis
• Mitral valvuloplasty
• Trans-septal catheterization
• Percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty
• Vena cava filter implantation
• PFO/ASD repair
• Septal alcohol injection for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Coil embolization of fistula