Goals of Training

Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Fellowship Goals

1. Medical expert:
   1. Clinical evaluation
   2. Echocardiography
   3. Catheter and wire skills
   4. Transeptal puncture
   5. Transcatheter mitral and tricuspid procedural skills
   6. Post-procedure evaluation and follow-up
2. Communicator and Collaborator
   1. Communicate and collaborate with specialists, nurse practitioners and allied healthcare workers to provide patient care and clinical evaluations.
   2. Communicate with patients, family members and referring physicians to enable patient centered decision making.
   3. Collaborate with cardiac anesthesia to establish optimal sedation approach for high-risk patients.
3. Professional, Leader and Health Advocate
   1. Demonstrate a high degree of professionalism including but not limited to high ethical standards, excellent team relationships, punctuality and sense of responsibility during preprocedural clinics, lab cases, and post-procedural ward and elective care understand radiation safety and use of contrast agents.
   2. Direct team pre-procedural planning and heart team review discussions contribute to wait-list management and co-ordinate inpatient access to percutaneous mitral/tricuspid valve interventions and transfers of care.
4. Scholar
   1. Conduct or contribute to mitral/Tricuspid-related research projects or related scholarly activity.
   2. Access and interpret evidence relevant to mitral/tricuspid interventional procedures.
   3. Educate other physicians and health professionals about aspects of mitral/tricuspid interventional procedures (i.e. HIU interventional rounds, cardiology regional rounds, Heart Team Rounds, journal clubs, etc).

Length of Training

12 months

Funding

Trainees are generally funded by their home university.