Hartford Hospital is a major tertiary care and community health care center, serving a statewide patient population.

The hospital has been a recipient of numerous highly prestigious national awards, recognizing the institution for its medical excellence, as well as its work in the areas of community relations, minority recruitment and the provision of health services within a diverse population.

Cardiovascular Fellowship Program

While in the three-year program, fellows receive training in basic cardiovascular diseases, clinical cardiology, and subspecialty practices. This is accomplished in several ways including clinical rotations which allows exposure to cardiovascular related diseases and problems, didactic sessions covering basic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases, dedicated research months and subspecialty rotations.

During the clinical rotations, the cardiovascular disease fellow interviews, examines and formulates basic evaluations in patients with cardiovascular related illnesses. During subspecialty training, cardiovascular disease fellows are exposed to the practices of cardiac catheterization, preventive cardiology, arrhythmias, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, cardiovascular surgery, pacemaker techniques and interventional electrophysiology. During the third year, the cardiovascular disease fellow chooses either an invasive or non-invasive track for additional training in one of those areas.

At the completion of the cardiovascular disease program, the fellow is qualified to enter the practice of cardiovascular diseases either in the invasive, non-invasive or clinical areas.

Although, not specifically part of the cardiovascular disease program, interested fellows may choose a fourth year subspecializing in various aspects of cardiology in hopes of pursuing an academic career.

More details:Cardiovascular Fellowship Program

General Vascular Surgery Fellowship
This is a two-year program. The first year is predominantly concerned with the diagnosis and surgical treatment of vascular disease. The fellow shares responsibility for a vascular service with an R-4 general surgery resident. The service has a dedicated vascular nursing unit of 24 beds where the majority of our patients are managed. One R-1 general surgery intern and four physician assistants support the service. Besides having an intense operative experience (average 350 cases) the clinical fellow is responsible for the management of a vascular clinic, preparation of a bimonthly mortality and morbidity conference, a weekly basic science conference, and a monthly journal club. Weekday night call is alternated with the R-4 senior resident and is taken from home. Weekend call is one in three, shared with the R-4 and senior vascular fellow. The program is predominantly centered at Hartford Hospital.