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Cardiology Fellowship
The cardiology fellowship is a three-year training program. The cardiology fellow is trained in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and works closely with the staff cardiologists. Invasive training provides experience in cardiac catheterization, insertion of temporary and permanent pacemakers, electrophysiology, percutaneous coronary intervention, and insertion of the intraaortic balloon pump. Noninvasive training includes transthoracic echocardiography, stress testing, transesophageal echocardiography, and exposure to nuclear cardiography.
Fellows will spend a part of each year dedicated to clinical or basic science research activities and are expected to submit their results for publication. Fellows also teach residents and medical students at the bedside.
Nephrology Fellowship
The division of nephrology offers positions for first and second year renal fellows and occasional additional research opportunities. The patient-oriented training program encompasses didactic and bedside instruction, analysis of current literature and both clinical and laboratory research.
The first year of training is devoted to clinical nephrology. Both inpatients and outpatients with a wide variety of nephrologic problems are referred locally and from West Texas, Eastern New Mexico, and elsewhere. Trainees become proficient in renal biopsy, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, arteriovenous hemofiltration, hemoperfusion, and in the care of transparent recipients.
During the clinical year, the renal fellow pursues a clinical research project which is published and/or presented at a scientific meeting (e.g., the annual scientific meeting of American Society of Nephrology). The second year of training is devoted entirely to research in basic renal physiology within the framework of ongoing laboratory research. Graduates are conversant with the scientific method and are familiar with a wide variety of laboratory procedures. After completion of training, they are prepared for either academic or practice-oriented careers.