Webinar Overview

Join ACC's Program Directors and Graduate Medical Educators Member Section as expert panelists explore actionable innovations, including 2+2 pathways and competency-based training, to modernize fellowship models for the next generation of cardiovascular specialists.

The rapid expansion of cardiovascular technologies and therapies has led to a proliferation in new clinical domains: critical care cardiology, multimodality imaging, cardio-oncology, and cardio-obstetrics, amongst others. These new areas of subspecialty expertise have stretched traditional graduate medical education paradigms to their limit. Based on the recent JACC: Advances State-of-the-Art Review, "The Future of Cardiovascular Subspecialty Training," this interactive webinar examines structural friction points in current fellowship models and outlines actionable innovations for the future.

Panelists will review key proposals to evolve training frameworks, including shortening core clinical cardiology to a 2+2 pathway, transitioning to competency-based time-variable milestones, adopting modular curricula and creating integrated subspecialty training tracks. Designed for program directors, associate program directors, division chiefs and medical educators, this session offers practical strategies to address institutional workforce needs while optimizing career trajectories for future cardiologists.

Key Objectives/Learning Outcomes:

• Identify structural and operational friction points in traditional, time-based training models given the rapid proliferation of non-standardized subspecialty fellowships.
• Examine proposed structural innovations, including 2+2 general-to-subspecialty pathways, integrated multi-subspecialty training models and modular curricular frameworks.
• Formulate actionable approaches for fellowship programs to transition toward competency-based advancement, modular learning, and flexible subspecialty certification pathways for trainees and practicing cardiologists.

Webinar Participants

Dipanjan Banerjee, MD, FACC
Benjamin H. Freed, MD, FACC
Zain Ul Abideen Asad, MD, FACC
Urooj Fatima, MD, FACC

Credit Information

No credit is being offered for this webinar.