HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital provides a unique opportunity for fellows to work directly with many different cardiology practices in the area. The program is structured to provide comprehensive training in all aspects of general cardiology, following COCATS requirements.

As fellows graduate from HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, they will have received adequate instruction and experience to qualify for COCATS Level II in general cardiology, cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, stress testing, pacemaker implantation with follow-up, basic nuclear cardiology and electrophysiology.

Rotation schedule

Each year will include multiple general and critical care cardiology service months to build a foundation in general cardiology.

Additionally, the fellowship schedule will incorporate:

PGY1

  • Echocardiography and nuclear training
  • Cardiac catheterization lab training

PGY2

  • Echocardiography and nuclear training
  • Cardiac catheterization lab training
  • Electrophysiology
  • Advanced heart failure

PGY3

  • Echocardiography and nuclear training
  • Cardiac catheterization lab training
  • Electrophysiology

Electives

Second and third-year fellows will have multiple elective opportunities tailored to their interests, including advanced imaging, vascular imaging, research, adult congenital heart disease and more.

Clinic

Fellows have an assigned afternoon clinic session each week in the ambulatory care setting with selected faculty for outpatient cardiology management.

This allows our fellows to establish a practice of their own patients for continuity of care throughout their three years of training.

Didactics

At HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, the teaching faculty have daily didactic sessions to teach the fellows the basics of general cardiology.

In addition to our morning lectures, the attendings working with fellows provide daily academic rounds. Other didactics delivered through the cardiology lecture series include Journal Club, cardiovascular quality meetings and monthly research meetings.

Morning lecture schedule is as follows:

  • Monday: EKG Interpretation Conference or hands-on echocardiography scanning
  • Tuesday: Multidisciplinary structural case discussion for TAVR and Mitraclip workup
  • Wednesday: Cardiac catheterization and echocardiography conference
  • Thursday: Fellow-prepared lectures spanning a broad range of cardiovascular topics
  • Friday: Board Review and Hemodynamics Lectures