Program Highlights

Curriculum

The goal of the inpatient and outpatient EP service experience is to develop the ability to diagnose and manage arrhythmias (bradycardiac and/or tachycardic). The Fellow is expected to know the HRS/AHA/ACC guidelines for brady support and ICD implant, as well as drug therapies for arrhythmias. The fellow’s role on the EP service should not be a repetition of residency, but rather should emulate the responsibilities of the attending for a series of challenging arrhythmia patients. The fellow may perform the initial attending's admission work-up, assembling ALL of the relevant data including phone calls to outside hospitals, referring physicians within or outside UMMHC, generate a differential diagnosis and management plan, and present this to the EP inpatient attending (who will be the attending physician of record for the patient). The fellow will round daily on the patients she/he admits, review diagnostic studies, continuously refine the working diagnosis, devise management plans, and oversee discharge planning, paperwork, and communication.

Technical Skills

Fellows are given ample opportunity to develop a high level of performance in such areas as interpretation of results of noninvasive testing relevant to arrhythmia diagnoses and treatment, performance and interpretation of invasive EP testing, performing therapeutic catheter ablation procedures, and performing implantation of ICDs and pacemakers, as well as cardiac resynchronization devices.