Question for current cardiology fellows

[NIcardz]

Any recommendations on books to buy before starting fellowship? thanks

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[tibor75]

Textbooks are overrated nowadays given the ease of computer searching. If you want to read anything, peruse the latest issues of JACC and Circ, look for review papers and the latest clinical trials. You'll likely see other important older papers referenced then look those up...and so on...and so on.

 

[grendelsdragon]

Any recommendations on books to buy before starting fellowship? thanks

download and read all the pertinent joint AHA/ACC practice guidelines for the main cardiology topics. ex. acute MI, NSTEMI, pacer & AICD, VT & SVT, valvular heart disease, afib, etc. these bread and butter literature have the references of all the pertinent studies.

especially get familiar with class I and III recommendations. as Rick Nishimura would say (and many other prominent clinical cardiologists would agree), "if you practice guidelines cardiology, you are practicing GOOD cardiology".