Agree, in fact most academic institutions require pediatric echo faculty to have an additional superfellowship year of echo/imaging beyond just Peds cardiology (3 years).
If you make Peds the ONLY fellowship that’s 2 rather than 1 year, interest will plummet - I’d bet less than 20% of current applicants would go for it unless you could make the fellows junior faculty allowing for a higher salary (currently forbidden by ACGME, which covers Peds fellowships). It’s a bad idea all around, I doubt it will happen anytime soon. Plus an exhaustive search found nothing from the SPA, ASA, ABA and the like so at best it’s an unfounded rumor.
@skankhunt42 are you going to post anything more about where you heard this or just going to start the rumor and drop off? From your posting history it looks like your currently an intern do you have any sources to cite or...