My fellowship is divided into two week blocks throughout the year. We rotate alongside fellows/residents from other departments and almost always in a multidisciplinary…

As a critical care fellow, I’ll spend a total of two months (four, 2-week rotations) in the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU). I just…

It’s possible to utilize transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), a noninvasive technique, to estimate a patient’s cardiac output. I’ll use some images from an echo I…

Due to the right ventricle’s (RV) unique geometry and cylindrical contraction pattern, assessing its function on echocardiography can be difficult. One of the more…

I spent the last two weeks in the coronary care unit (CCU) as part of my first elective. Although the CCU is an ICU,…

Moonlighting basically entails taking on paid work on top of my normal job. Our program restricts moonlighting hours to ~20 hours per month, so…