Educational Experience of Interventional Cardiology Fellows in the United States and Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic and iodinated contrast shortage may have affected interventional cardiology (IC) fellowship training.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to investigate the educational experience of first-year IC fellows in the United States and Canada.

Methods

A 59-question online survey was conducted among 2021-2022 first-year IC fellows in the United States and Canada.

Results

Of the 360 IC fellows invited to participate, 111 (31%) responded; 95% were from the United States, and 79% were men. Participants were mostly from university programs (70%), spent 61 to 70 hours/week in the hospital, and had an annual percutaneous coronary intervention case number of <200 (5%), 200 to 249 (8%), 250 to 349 (33%), 350 to 499 (39%), 500 to 699 (12%), or

SUBMITTER: Simsek B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9924361 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature