I interviewed there a few years ago. I know it seems like a nice private hospital. I was not sure of how much teaching there would be during rounds, etc., or whether it's more like a private practice place where the fellows work all day but get good/acceptable "numbers" for cardiac cath, etc. I am not sure how many people do subspecialty fellowship...if you want to do interventional then it would behoove you to find out how many fellows go on to do so, but particularly how well the program supports them in applying. They don't have a large number of fellows there, so if the place is benign the faculty should be able to help interested fellows "find" a subspecialty position if they want one and are willing to work hard. I know that they have a transplant program (or did, last time I looked) and I think they do LVAD's as well, so if you wanted to do CHF fellowship after, you'd probably be well set up for that. Also, CHF fellowships are not hard to get (UCSF even has had unfilled position at least once in the past couple years where they were advertising for someone to fill it). I'm not sure how many of their fellows go into fellowship versus straight into practice.
When I interviewed, they mentioned they have no housing allowance, and it certainly is expensive to live in SF.
