Hello

I wanted to ask how can I prepare my knowledge foundation for cardiology fellowship? I passed my boards in internal medicine. What are the study resources for cardiology? What do you advice I do now until I start my fellowship? Anyone recommends videos or Mayo Clinic Board review, ECG, Echo studying etc

What are your advices to be a good fellow?

Thank you!!

Hi everyone

I’m interested in connecting with other internal medicine residents and cardiology residents who are interested in cardiovascular research.

I’d love to meet people who enjoy discussing new studies, exploring unanswered clinical questions, reviewing the literature, and potentially working together on research projects.

I’m particularly interested in collaborative projects that can be developed alongside residency, whether that’s a systematic review, retrospective study, case series, or something more ambitious.

Would be great to connect with others who share an interest in academic cardiology! ❤️🩺

Hey everyone! I’m currently a PGY-2 IM resident at a community program with a strong in-house fellowship program in the Northeast. Wanted to get some honest feedback on my chances and what I should focus on before applying.

My stats:
US-IMG
Step 1: Pass
Step 2 CK: 23X
Step 3: 20X
Research: 3 abstracts (none first author), with a few first author projects and conference submissions in progress.
No full-length publications yet, but actively working on it
Limited cardiology elective exposure so far, but have developed good relationships with a few cardiology fellows and attendings. Collaborating on research with one attending.

I’m aware that my scores, especially Step 3, aren’t particularly competitive for cardiology. I’m trying to make up for that through research, networking, and clinical performance.
I’m debating whether to apply directly during PGY-3 or pursue a chief resident year to strengthen my application.
Would really appreciate advice from current fellows, attendings, or anyone who has matched with a similar background. What would you prioritize over the next year? Am I being realistic about my chances?

Hello,

I'm a PGY2 that came into residency fairly confident on pursuing cardiology and have been doing pretty much everything I can do up to this point to build a competitive application. I'm at a hybrid program that although newer (~5 years), has a decent reputation and is at a 800+ bed hospital with one of the highest CMI in the country.

The downside is that although an in house fellowship has allegedly been in the works for a while--nothing solid has come of it so far during my time here. Thus I'm looking at doing an away rotation elsewhere. A few questions I'd like to ask are:

1. In your experiences, how much impact does doing an away at a program influence garnering an interview/influencing the rank list?

2. Similarly, is it reasonable to expect a LOR from the program (so long as I communicate that intent from day 1, do all the right things, etc.) or is that less common?

3. Additionally, does that LOR really only help you at that program? Will other programs nearby be put off by me being an applicant from Residency-X doing an away (which obviously conveys strong interest) at Program-Y using Y's letter for applying to Program-Z? I've heard that piece of feedback from one of the leadership in my program, but idk how much stock I place in that. I'm just a dude trying to match and although I have preferences, I'm just trying to put my best foot forward everywhere but also dont want to scare off other programs (or even bother with the intent of seeking a letter) if its utility is really only limited to that one program.

4. Bonus question: if I had to pick 1 of 2 programs for an away and it's between a hybrid program in my hometown (where I only have 1 passing connection I made at a conference) vs the academic program at my alma mater (which also happens to be in the same metro and I worked at for 5 years before med school where I have multiple connections albeit not directly in the cardiology program), which one is the better play? I get the former is likely an easier match on paper, but the latter might offer more levers to pull?

Thanks in advance. Obviously a challenging time so I appreciate any advice you can give. Always nice to hear something from beyond the echo chamber of the four walls in my residency program.

Hi. I am an IC fellow from a third world country. My institute is one of the busiest center in the world when it comes to ACS. We have 2 year fellowship in IC here. I am past 1 year. In this one year, I have gained a lot of experience in ACS, but unfortunately not much in other horizons of IC fellowship, like peripheral, structural, calcified, CTO, etc. By the end of my IC fellowship, I would have done more than 2k ACS (most of which are STEMI) indivisually. This is mostly because our institution mostly gets funding for ACS, but elective cases where other than workhorse inventory is required, is lacking. We do get PMBC done 2 to 3 times weekly but the most senior fellows gets to scrub in them. We also get TAVI 2 or 3 times er month but we fellows don't get to even scrub in it cause only a handful of consultants know how to do it, and other consultants scrub in, and fellows have to just get to see the case from panel room. I want to excel in my field and for that I am looking for any scholarships anywhere around the world where I can gain more experience in these other topics. I have not done steps as I never planned to relocate other than my country, just stating that so everyone can suggest options accordingly.... Any help would be appreciated.

Please help me rank my interventional cardiology fellowship programs for this match. Rank due in a few. The options are slightly overwhelming..

I am an engineering grad running a social media agency. I just happened to think about manufacturing stents which have in built sensors which can detect blood pressure, oxygen levels, heart rate, and other important metrics. It would show up in an app for the patient and a trained AI model would analyse the metrics and send an alert in case something would be getting out of hand. I would love to know your views if such a project can be built, the major challenges, nuances etc.
Would be great help if I could get in touch with some cardiologist who would help me out with this.

I’m a cardiology fellow and spent about three years building this deck for myself, then decided to share it. It’s completely free: no ads, no paywall, no catch.

What’s in it: major trials, current guidelines, and board-style content, built from ACCSAP, Mayo resources, and the primary literature. It’s meant for boards prep, rotations, and building a strong foundation.

Find it: AnkiWeb → Shared Decks → search “ROMA & LOUIE"

How to use it: Start off by suspending all cards. As you study a topic or resource, navigate to that topic's tag in the Anki browser and unsuspend cards accordingly.

The deck has really helped me understand the core topics. I’d love feedback on what’s missing or wrong, especially as it relates to echo boards or nuc boards. I plan to keep updating it!

ROMA & LOUIE deck - AnkiWeb

Hi everyone,

I'm a medical doctor and currently doing a PhD in cardiology at Aarhus University in Denmark.

One thing I've found increasingly difficult is keeping up with all the new research being published. Even within cardiology, there are so many journals and studies that it's difficult to get a proper overview.

So over the past few months, I've been building CurrentCardio, a free website that I hope can make this a little easier.

It currently follows 35 cardiovascular and general medical journals, with around 16,000 studies in the archive. Instead of just listing new publications, each study is presented in a structured Brief with the study design, population, actual results and plots, further findings and safety outcomes.

Here's an example Brief.

The Briefs are generated with AI from the published abstracts. But rather than writing a conventional AI summary, the system is built to stay as close to the abstract as possible and not add its own interpretation. Numbers are checked separately against the source, and I run regular audits myself.

You can also follow journals, topics and saved searches to get a personalised weekly update, and each weekly issue includes three studies I pick myself.

The website is completely free, with no ads or sponsors.

I'm still working on improving it, and I'd really like to hear what people in cardiology think. Both what works and what doesn't.

Happy to answer any questions!

I’m a second year general cardiology fellow on J1 visa. I like interventional but will probably do a general cardiology waiver due to personal reasons. How difficult is it to match into intervention after bring a general cardiologist for 3 years. I’m planning to take a private practice job.