Curriculum

The physician serves twelve months in the Catheterization Laboratory as an Interventional Fellow within the Division of Cardiology.

Catheterization laboratory

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.

Clinic responsibilities

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 Beaumont, Royal Oak
  • 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 implantaton
• PFO/ASD repair
• septal alcohol injection for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• coil embolization of fistula