Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health, Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation Fellowship Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Upon program completion, graduates will qualify to serve as a medical director of a UNOS certified heart transplant program and be eligible for certification in the subspecialty of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM).
In accordance with the ACC COCATS 3 Task Force 8, we train on the management and evaluation of heart failure, transplant, and pulmonary hypertension patients as well as end-of-life issues. Additionally, the program provides exposure to a large volume VAD program, Heartmate II, Heartware and the Heartmate III trial along with aggressive percutaneous support to include Impella and ECMO.
The site support from Baylor Dallas is substantial with a large tertiary care center fully staffed with specialists and advanced practice health care professionals who are experts in the management of advanced heart failure.
The volume of outpatients available to the fellow per day is approximately 50 patients in various stages of heart failure management, including:
The average number of patients the fellow will directly manage per clinic session is approximately five to eight.
The overall inpatient volume available to the fellow is approximately 25 patients. The number of inpatients the fellow will directly manage will be approximately four to 10, depending on the degree of involvement the fellow has had with the patient both in prior outpatient encounters and during the initial hospital admission.
Rotations include:
The program is supported by a categorical internal medicine residency, clinical cardiology fellowship, interventional cardiology fellowship and electrophysiology fellowship. The educational impact for the heart failure fellow is excellent from cardiology, cardiovascular surgery and consultants. In return, the fellow has a salutary educational impact on the clinical fellowship program in daily rounds and in conferences.
Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health, is a 115-acre campus with 915 beds, a Level I trauma center and nationally ranked specialty services.
Applicants may apply through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) to electronically submit residency applications, letters of recommendations, dean’s letters, transcripts and other credentials directly from their medical school.
Applications are due by the first week of April.
Visit ERAS to apply
Applicants must have completed at least three years of internal medicine residency and three years of cardiology fellowship training.
In order to be considered for the program, applicants must submit the following materials:
Shawn Guy-Pitts Phone: 214.820.2234 Fax: 214.820.7272 Shawn.GuyPitts@BSWHealth.org
Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation Fellowship Baylor University Medical Center3500 Gaston Ave.Roberts Hospital, 1st Floor, Suite 1013Dallas, TX 75246
In addition to competitive stipends, we offer our fellows a full menu of employee benefits. We help offset the cost of many of these benefits; others are options you can choose to pay for yourself.
Dallas provides access to metropolitan entertainment and culture while maintaining the lowest cost of living among the top 10 largest U.S. cities.
As the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States, Baylor Scott & White Health includes 48 hospitals, more than 900 patient care sites, more than 6,000 active physicians and more than 40,000 employees.
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