Academic Offerings: Postgraduate
Residency Programs

Cardiology
School of Medicine

The Residency Program of Cardiology offers a four-year program for medical students, admitted through qualifying examinations, with seven positions available each year. The program is designed to offer rigorous clinical and classroom activity.

Clinical activity involves bedside patient care, both in the cardiology ward and the intensive care unit, and participation in the daily practice of non-invasive diagnostics (laboratories of effort tests, echocardiography, Holter monitoring) and of invasive cardiology (laboratories of hemodynamic, electrophysiology and cardiac pacing). These clinical activities is full-time and required for all residents. Formal lessons cover the whole field of clinical cardiology (including pediatric cardiology) and also include genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, bioimaging, statistics and pharmacology. Additionally, seminars on current topic and recently published research in the cardiovascular field are held every week.

Every year, residents must take formal examinations, administered by the professors and instructors, who are well known experts in different fields of cardiology.

Throughout the course of the program, students are encouraged to participate and actively develop clinical research, under the supervision of the Director and senior cardiologists. Submission of abstracts and full papers to national and international congresses and to peer-reviewed journals by students is also encouraged.

To complete the program, students must present the results of their clinical research developed from their interests in the field.

Director: Professor Jorge Antonio Salerno-Uriarte