University of Pittsburgh Cardiology Fellowship

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Does anyone know anything about this program? Pro's/Con's? I've heard that the program is somewhat malignant and that the fellows are not happy there. Is this really true?

 

[tibor75]

Does anyone know anything about this program? Pro's/Con's? I've heard that the program is somewhat malignant and that the fellows are not happy there. Is this really true?

not at all.
amazing the lies that pop up on the internet.

 

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i have it from a pretty good source that you don't need to care about physical diagnosis skills to do well there. for example, you just gotta hear the murmur and the echo will do the rest. 👍

they must order a lot of echos...

There is a new generation of stethoscope that has made the Littman obsolete. It's called the echocardiogram.

PE skills are on the decline because they simply aren't that useful anymore.

20 years ago, you needed to tell the presence and severity of mitral stenosis based on physical exam.

Now, all you need to hear is a murmur and the echo will do the rest.
Physicians are smart people. They allow skills to erode which aren't very important anymore.

I'm willing to bet the physical exam skills of most cardiologists isn't much better than medicine attendings. And will continue to get worse as the years go on.

it's quite common sense that physical diagnosis skills have little if anything to do with being a good or great physician.

and it seems that everyone carries around cheapass POS stethoscopes for fear of lookin stupid 😉

Because doctors, unlike medical students, realize that one stethescope (beyond the MRSA or nurse stethescope level) is not better than another, and getting a fancier and more expensive one, just makes you look foolish and clueless.