>> Welcome. My name is Dr. Thorsten Leucker and I'm
the Program Director of the
Johns Hopkins Cardiology Fellowship Program.
Thank you for taking the time to learn
more about us and our fellowship program.
The Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at Hopkins offers
a rigorous but collegial training environment for
individuals with an interest in developing an academic career.
Our program provides fellows the opportunity to
develop their skill set through clinical training,
academic research and mentoring from our expert faculty.
Our fellows are able to learn not only from
these amazing academic clinical mentors,
but also from a diverse and complex patient population
at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Bayview Medical Center.
Bedside teaching is complemented by daily educational conferences,
offering a well rounded clinical and educational experience.
In addition to the core cuts required
invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular clinical training,
we offer several new electives in adult congenital heart disease,
cardio OB, and cardio genetics.
Our fellows often continue their education at Hopkins and pursue
subspecialty clinical training in clinical electrophysiology,
interventional and structural cardiology, heart failure,
cardiac critical care,
multimodality imaging or we most
recently added adult congenital heart disease.
We provide ongoing mentorship for each of our fellows,
our program strives to uphold
the Johns Hopkins tradition of clinical excellence,
teaching, and research.
All fellows are paired with
at least three mentors including a career mentor,
research mentor as well of fellows buddy.
Although many fellows report having several more mentors
guiding them in their career development
doing fellowship and beyond,
we have a strong history of preparing
leaders in the field of academic cardiology,
providing them with the tools to
become skilled clinicians as well as
providing outstanding experience in
the field of cardiovascular research.
All our fellows are expected to participate in a research or
educational project that they will present to the division.
During the research experience,
each fellow works closely with
one or more mentors who will help
further the fellows academic interests.
Our fellows receive funding to attend and present
their work at at least one scientific conferences a year.
What makes our program unique is the capability
to individualize training to each fellows need,
we offer an early research track which allows selected fellows,
to start research training and their second year of
fellowship instead of later in the fellowship program.
This provides them with the opportunity to publish and build
a competitive portfolio for fellow to faculty grant obligation.
This year we also added
a clinician educator pathway for
our fellows interested in medical education,
and program and curriculum development.
Many of our fellows publish
peer review papers and receive a wide variety of grants,
allowing them to emerge with the diverse portfolio and
helping them to secure top academic jobs after fellowship.
We are very proud to recruit
a diverse fellowship class year after year.
Our current class consists of
about 40 percent women and
20 percent under represented minorities.
In additional, our program is very family friendly and
supports fellows who have children
during their fellowship time with us.
Last year, we welcomed five Fellowship babies to the program.
Our program is well supported by
cardiology leadership and the fellowship mentorship committee,
meeting frequently with fellows to ensure their ongoing success.
We have a strong history of preparing
leaders in the field of academic cardiology,
providing them with the tools to become
skilled clinician as well as providing outstanding experience,
in the field of cardiovascular research and medical education.
We look forward to welcome you to Baltimore,
and to help prepare you for
the next step in your career. Thank you. [MUSIC]