Cardiology Fellowship Program

The 36 months of training include 6 months in echocardiography, 5 months in the consultation service, 5 months in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, 5 months in the CICU, 5 months in research, 2 months in the electrophysiology/pacemaker service, 2 months in nuclear cardiology, 1 month in preventive cardiology, and 1 month in the pediatric cardiology service.  During the remaining 4 months of training, the fellow may elect to take advanced training in diagnostic catheterization, noninvasive cardiology, pacemakers, or research. 

Fellowship Director: Mara T. Slawsky, MD, PhD 

Fellowship Coordinator: Lora Fillion email: Lora.Fillion@baystatehealth.org phone: 413.794.8722

Program & Department Statistics

• Length of fellowship: 3 years
• Number of fellows per year: 3
• Number of faculty: 24

Baystate Statistics

• Number of hospital beds:  653
• Number of cardiac surgeries per year (FY07): 723
• Number of cardiac catherizations per year (FY07): 3,956
• Number of electrophysiology procedures per year (FY07): 2,741
• Number of residency programs: 10
• Number of fellowship programs:  16

Fellow Benefits & Facilities

• Salary —  PG4: $59,500  PG5: $62,000  PG6: $64,500
• 4 weeks vacation/year, meal subsidy, free parking
• Disability/Malpractice/Health/Life Insurance
• Fellows share an office space; each has his or her own work area and computer
• Comprehensive electronic medical records
• Access to Cardiosource Plus for Institutions: ECG and Cardiovascular Care Learning Materials online
• Access to Nuclear Cardiology Online which provides the hours of nuclear didactics required for COCATS Level II certification
• Access to ebooks, ejournals, and spacious on-campus hospital library offering journal and book collections, literature searches and electronic document delivery
• Access to Tufts Health Science electronic library

Curriculum Information

• The 36 months of training include echocardiography (6 months), consultation service (5 months), cardiac catheterization laboratory (5 months), CICU (5 months), research (5 months), electrophysiology/ pacemaker service (2 months), nuclear cardiology (2 months), preventive cardiology (1 month), pediatric cardiology service (1 month), and electives in advanced training in diagnostic catheterization, noninvasive cardiology, pacemakers, or research (4 months).

• Weekly educational conferences: ECG, Echo, Cath, EP, Nuclear, ACC-SAP

• Monthly educational conferences: Research, M&M, Journal Club, Cardiac Surgery