Interventional training after cardiology

[Idiopathic]

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What is required to be able to do intervention after completion of cardiology? We have a new cardiologist who can do caths and stuff on his own, but needs another physician to be present to do stenting/angioplasty. Does he just need to log a certain amount of cases, or does he have to train for a certain length of time? Does this vary from state to state?

 

[jdaasbo]

general cardiologists may perform diagnostic heart catheterization.

To perform interventions, generally one is required to do an additional year of training specifically in Interventional Cardiology. This leads to board elligibility (and comonly certification) in Interventional Cardiology. Some older cardiologists may have "grandfathered" in before specialty training in Interventional Cardiology existed.

As with many specialties, cardiology is fractionating into many sub-areas: Interventional Cardiology, Electrophysiology, Preventative Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac Magnetic Resonnace Imaging (sometimes combined with CT imaging), Echocardiography, Peripheral Vacular Disease (often Interventional), Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, and the list is growing...