Throughout their fellowship training, our fellows participate in at least two continuity ambulatory clinics where they are the primary clinicians caring for patients with a variety of cardiovascular diseases. There is typically one continuity clinic session/week when fellows are not on inpatient rotations.
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (PCAM) clinic: In this clinic, fellows are responsible for serving as the primary cardiologist for a panel of patients. Fellows typically will grow those panels by following patients they met on inpatient services as well as by seeing new patients referred to clinic for initial, second, or third opinions. They are assigned a clinic preceptor, based on shared interests, who serves as a clinical as well as longitudinal career mentor. Fellows are supported in clinic with a variety of multidisciplinary resources including administrative assistant, nurse, pharmacist, exercise physiologist, and dietician. They also have access to a comprehensive EHR dashboard to help review quality of care in their panel as a whole.
Fellows participate in in-person as well as telemedical encounters during these clinics.
VA clinic: The VA clinic continuity experience is based at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Having a continuity clinic at the VA allows fellows to gain experience both with a different patient population but also a different practice setting/model.
Fellows also participate in in-person and telemedical encounters during these clinics.
Fellows also have access to a variety of subspecialty ambulatory clinics which they can incorporate into their training (including continuity experiences over the course of one to two years). These clinics include but are not limited to the following areas:
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Cardio-oncology
- Sports and exercise cardiology
- Women's cardiovascular health/cardio-obstetrics
- Preventative cardiology
- Pulmonary vascular disease/pulmonary hypertension
- Inherited heart disease and cardiovascular genetics
- Perioperative cardiac medicine
- Cardiac and vascular surgery
- Outreach clinics located within and outside Philadelphia