Fellowship Roles
Fellowships are popular way to gain extra experience in EP and devices and may facilitate learning specific techniques from highly specialised units around the world, or from within the UK. The important factors to consider are what examination requirements might the unit require, what the visa-entry and work permits for a particular country are and finally what you think the fellowship will add to your training. It is for these reasons that it is strongly recommended that you plan early and speak to others who have done it before!
Note: The information on this page is correct at time of writing, but you should be aware that situations may change rapidly and accuracy is not guaranteed.
Electrophysiology Fellow – Cardiology
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham are looking for a motivated trainee to join us as a Senior EP Fellow from Oct 2023. This is a great opportunity for lots of catheter ablation, device work, extraction, and ICC.
The appointee is expected to take responsibility for all patients undergoing electrophysiology procedures in the labs. The fellow will work with the EP registrars to ensure that all patients under the EP team are seen daily. Where suitably trained, the fellow will be expected to perform pre-procedure TOE to exclude left atrial thrombus when required prior to left atrial ablation. The Fellow will be trained in all aspects of cardiac electrophysiology. If appropriately trained they will be expected to implant single and dual chamber pacemakers and defibrillators.
Feel free to contact Manish Kalla with any questions.
This vacancy closes: 26th February 2023
Post-CCT fellowship in the Advanced Ventricular Arrhythmia Training and Research (AVATAR) program
St George’s Hospital
Recruitment has begun for a fully funded, salaried post-Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) level, or EU-equivalent, clinical fellowship in Ventricular Arrhythmias at St. George’s Hospital, London, UK. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain first-hand operator experience in mapping and ablation of ventricular arrhythmias in a busy tertiary cardiology centre, with quaternary referrals for ventricular arrhythmias. The fellow can expect to gain experience in mapping and ablation of ventricular arrhythmias, including epicardial-endocardial, in all substrates. The minimum duration is 12 months, starting October 2023.
Interested applicants should contact Dr Magdi Saba, with CV attached, by February 17th, 2023. Interviews will be held in late February 2023.
Senior Fellow in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Bournemouth/Southampton
Opportunities to train in EP and Complex Devices in the Wessex Region based at either University Hospitals Dorset (on the Bournemouth site) or University Hospitals Southampton.
Posts are to start in April (UHS ) August (UHD and UHS) 2023 and will be normally be appointed for a duration of 12 months. Candidates will be able to preference which site they are applying for at interview. UHD offers a comprehensive adult EP and device service to residents of Dorset and parts of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Three in house and two visiting Electrophysiologists along with an additional three complex devices implanters deliver over 700 EP ablation and 300 complex device procedure in the setting of a busy cardiac cath lab service.
UHS offers Adult EP ablation and devices to Hampshire and Guernsey as well as Paediatric & ACHD EP and devices and lead extraction to the wider region from the Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre. Both sites offer access to emerging techniques in EP and CIEDs.
Job Reference: MT0879 – This vacancy closes on or before: Thursday 9th February 2023
FELLOWSHIP ROLES
Fellowships are popular way to gain extra experience in EP and devices and may facilitate learning specific techniques from highly specialised units around the world, or from within the UK
International Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowships
Toronto General Hospital – Toronto, Canada
Contact: Dr Krishnakumar Nair
Email: Krishnakumar.Nair@uhn.ca
Location:
Peter Munk Cardiac Center, Rm 3-522
Toronto General Hospital
150 Gerrard St. W.
Toronto, ON
M5G 2C4
Detail:
2-3 year fellowship involving all aspects of interventional cardiac electrophysiology and device implantation. One particular area of sub-specialty interest is adult congenital electrophysiology. There are also opportunities to perform research.
Generally need to apply at least 1 year in advance and interview can be carried out at HRS.
Location:
Department of Cardiology
London Health Sciences Centre, London
Ontario
Contact: Dr. Peter Leong-Sit, Associate Professor of Medicine
Email: pleongsit@gmail.com
Charlene Grass, program administrator
Email: charlene.grass@lhsc.on.ca
Mayo Clinic – Rochester, USA
Contact:
Samuel J. Asirvatham, M.D.
Cardiology, Electrophysiology Fellowship Program Director
Email: asirvatham.samuel@mayo.edu
Ashley L. Olson
Education Coordinator
Phone: 507-293-0942
Email: olson.ashley@mayo.edu
Detail:
If you are interested in advanced training in electrophysiology, Mayo Clinic offers the option to spend one or two years focusing on clinical practice and research in that sub-specialty. You can participate in this training in one of two ways:
- You may spend one or two years in electrophysiology as an elective to finish Mayo’s Cardiovascular Diseases Subspecialty Fellowship Program
- You may take the one-year Electrophysiology Subspecialty Fellowship as an independent program after you complete at least three years of accredited cardiovascular diseases training at another institution. In either case, you will conduct research and gain specific experience in intensive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and patient management. For example, you will work with Mayo Clinic physician consultants to:
Diagnose and treat patients with radio frequency ablation for supraventricular arrhythmias (e.g., AV node re-entry, WPW, atrial flutter) and ventricular tachycardia. Implant and follow up on investigational implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Learn the operative management of atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and accessory pathways. When you complete this training, you will be eligible for the American Board of Internal Medicine subspecialty examination in cardiac electrophysiology.
Four positions are available annually on a competitive basis. To apply, you need to use the third-party application service, Apply Yourself. The academic year begins in July. Applications for the Electrophysiology Subspecialty Fellowship are due no later than September 1, approximately 22 months before the start of the academic year to which you are applying. If you are considered for an appointment, you will be asked to visit Mayo Clinic for an interview with the program director and selected faculty. Interviews are conducted between January and April.
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions – Baltimore, USA
Ronald D. Berger, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Training Program
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Contact:
Lauren Rodger, Fellowship co-ordinator
Email: lmodica1@jhmi.edu
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Program – Boston, USA
Location:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cardiovascular Medicine
185 Pilgrim Road
Baker 605C
Boston, MA 02215
Contact:
Jacquelynn D. White, Fellowship Training Programs Administrator
Tel – (617) 632 7828
Fax – (617) 632 7536
Pager # 36704
General cardiology fellows spend a minimum of two months rotating through the service. The goals are for fellows to learn an approach to managing patients with arrhythmias and to understand the role of the clinical EP lab and implanted cardiac electrical devices (pacemakers and defibrillators). General cardiology fellows perform in-house consults on patients with arrhythmias. They are responsible for managing a busy cardioversion service. They learn to interrogate and program permanent pacemakers, loop recorders and defibrillators. There are also opportunities for fellows participate in the clinical electrophysiology lab, if desired.
