Physician, Structural Heart Disease 5th Year Fellow

Details

• Specialty: Structural Heart Disease Fellowship
• Schedule:  40 hours week/ 36 pt facing w 4 admin hours (5 days per week)
• Call Schedule: General Cardiology - 1 night call per week & 1:5 weekends
• Practice Detail:  Clinic position, no inpt. 
• EMR System:  CERNER
• Facility: Ascension Borgess Heart Institute
• Location: Kalamazoo, MI 

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community

*Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: Travel, PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Actual compensation offer will vary based upon role, education, experience, location, and qualifications. Connect with your Talent Advisor for additional specifics.

Responsibilities

Ascension Borgess is looking for a 5th year Fellow to join our SHD Department.

This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to partner with Ascension Borgess to provide medical services to patients.

Position Highlights:

The SHD Fellowship at Michigan State University/Ascension Borgess Hospital offers one fellow the opportunity for a 5th year of Advanced Interventional Fellowship training focusing on high risk PCI's like CHIP & CTO, and Structural Heart Disease interventions like Valvuloplasty, TAVR, MitraClip, Watchman, Angiovac and Alcohol Septal Ablation.  Advanced training is also provided in peripheral vascular interventions, carotid artery stenting and angiography, pacemaker implantation (optional), Rotablator atherectomy, Angiojet thrombectomy, intravascular ultrasound, physiologic assessment of lesions using Doppler and pressure measurement techniques, acute MI management and interventions, training distal protection techniques, and a variety of other newer technical modalities. 

The patient population in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory allows the fellow to gain knowledge of multiple manifestations of structural heart disease. Fellows rotate through the catheterization laboratory for one year. The objective is to make all fellows’ educational experiences more uniform from month to month. The first time a fellow rotates through the catheterization laboratory, many of the concepts of pathophysiology and management will be new. It is our hope that with repetition of a core didactic session, in addition to clinical experience obtained from prior rotations, the fellow will learn new layers of complexity each time. It is expected that the case mix will vary from month to month, allowing for teaching opportunities outside of those outlined below.

Central to the teaching mission is the use of the fellow’s physical diagnostic skills in concert with the array of invasive and non-invasive, diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available. Fellows should become facile with reading electrocardiograms, chest radiographs, hemodynamic tracings and coronary angiograms, vascular angiography and the recognition of basic echocardiographic anatomy.

Ascension Borgess Hospital  is actively involved in five to ten basic and clinical cardiovascular research studies per year.  The fellows are given ample opportunity to become meaningful participants in research on new devices and techniques in both the pre-clinical and clinical phases. It is anticipated that each fellow will participate in one or more research projects during his/her fellowship.

The fellowship also provides a variety of other teaching and learning opportunities including formal didactic sessions, weekly clinical cardiovascular catheterization conferences, monthly journal club, a bi-monthly M&M conference designed to improve outcomes, troubleshoot problems and increase proficiency, and other CME opportunities.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 12 months experience in cardiac catheterization, angiography and coronary interventions
• Completion and passing of all three USMLE steps
• ABIM board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and board certified or board eligible in interventional cardiology by the start of the program year
• The accepted applicant must obtain a full Michigan license
• A valid ECFMG certificate for all foreign medical graduates
• Completion of previous interventional cardiology fellowship training is required

Requirements

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

• One or more of the following required:
  • Physician MD/DO credentialed from the Michigan Board of Medicine obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date. State of Michigan Physician Limited Educational license at the time of hire/transfer date required or permanent physician license required.
  • Resident credentialed from the Michigan Board of Medicine obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date. State of Michigan Physician Limited Educational license at the time of hire/transfer date required or permanent physician license required.
  • Dentist credentialed from the Michigan Board of Dentistry obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date. State of Michigan Physician Limited Educational license at time of hire/transfer date required or permanent physician license required.
  • Podiatrist credentialed from the Michigan Board of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date. State of Michigan Physician Limited Educational license at the time of hire/transfer date required or permanent physician license required.
• BLS Provider preferred. American Heart Association or American Red Cross accepted.
• Advanced Life Support preferred. American Heart Association or American Red Cross accepted.

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) or Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) or Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) or Doctor of Optometry (OD) or Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) required.

Why Join Our Team

Ascension Michigan operates 16 hospitals and more than 300 related healthcare facilities that together employ nearly 23,000 compassionate associates. When you join our care teams, you join a team dedicated to providing spiritually centered, holistic care which sustains and improves the health of the communities we serve throughout Michigan.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

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