Structural Heart Diseases Interventional Training in Canada

Accreditation and funding for a 24‐month advanced interventional cardiology fellowship program: A call‐to‐action for optimal training of the next generation of interventionalists

“…As the requisite skill set to perform a broader array of interventions has expanded, training in interventional cardiology is also undergoing a metamorphosis. Surveys of interventional cardiology training program directors from the United States and Canada published by Marmagkiolis et al have concluded that a single year of training in interventional cardiology is not sufficient to gain proficiency in coronary, peripheral, and structural heart disease interventions . As technology improves, interventional cardiology training programs that have traditionally focused on coronary interventions may desire to expand their fellowship curricula to include additional experience in structural heart disease, vascular medicine and intervention, and complex coronary/percutaneous circulatory support interventions.…”

Structural heart disease training in the USA, Canada, and Europe

“…The growing need for highly specialized SHD interventional cardiologists to perform these complex transcatheter procedures resulted in the birth of specialized educational centers with dedicated training programs. We have previously published the results of a survey of program directors (PD), identifying training programs for structural interventional cardiologists in the USA, Canada, and Europe [1][2][3]. The present paper aims to describe similarities and differences in structural training between these three regions.…”

Of Becoming a Structural Heart Disease Expert: Another Giant Leap?

“…There is a consensus agreement among interventional cardiology training program directors that in the near future a training curriculum will be officially established and applied, as is the case with medicine, cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology [8][9]. At the moment, we only have some expert consensus recommendations on what would be required for training [4][5].…”