Fellowship Training Options

The section on Cardiology offers several fellowship opportunities including a 3 year clinical general cardiology training program and a 4 year combined clinical general cardiology and research training program. We also offer 1 year additional training for subspecialization in Interventional Cardiology, and Electrophysiology. We will accept fellows each year. Our three-year program is designed to provide fellows with balanced training in both clinical and investigative cardiology. We provide fellows with strong training in all aspects of clinical cardiology including invasive and interventional cardiology, non-invasive cardiology, heart failure and cardiac transplant, electrophysiology, cardiac rehabilitation and preventive cardiology. As part of the training program, all fellows are also expected to complete a research project with a faculty mentor.


The program content is provided within a three-year fellowship. One-month rotations in either a clinical setting, or working with a faculty mentor on a research project comprise the blocks of the training program. During these clinical rotations the Fellows develop the requisite procedural and consultative skills to satisfy the requirements of subspecialty training in cardiovascular diseases. A key feature of the training program is one to one faculty to fellow relationship throughout the training in both procedural and consultative activities. Experience with longitudinal patient care is provided in a hospital setting on the General Cardiology Consult Service, the Arrhythmias Consult Service, the Fellows Service and the Coronary Care Unit rotation. Continuity experience in an Outpatient setting is achieved through a weekly half-day Outpatient Clinic in the Department of Clinics.

The knowledge base necessary for successful completion of the Cardiovascular Diseases Training Program is provided through a series of didactic lectures, and conferences including Clinical Cardiology Conference, an Interventional Conference, a Research Conference providing both basic and clinical research, a Non-Invasive Conference, and a Nuclear Cardiology Conference.

The training program is located entirely within one location, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC. As a quartenary referral center with a growing primary care base, this medical center is equipped with state of the art cardiac catheterization laboratories, non-invasive laboratory including exercise treadmill, surface and transesophageal echocardiography, nuclear radiology, and electrophysiology laboratories. Active programs in Cardiac Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Interventional Radiology and Pediatric Cardiology exist within the Medical Center. The Wake Forest University School of Medicine of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center complex has completed a 180 million-dollar expansion program, which gives us a total of 806 licensed hospital beds.