The UPMC EP Fellows rotate through 6 state-of-the art EP labs staffed by 9 academic electrophysiologists committed to the highest standards of clinical training. Fellows rotate through the labs at the Presbyterian/Shadyside/Passavant Campus. They are mentored in all aspects of clinical management of patients with complex rhythm disorders. They participate in daily clinical rounds. There is a focus on advancing their skills with advanced ablations, including ablation without fluoroscopy, CIED implant and extraction, LAA closure, and other procedures to ensure autonomy by fellowship completion. The fellows receive mentorship in arrhythmia and device management in an outpatient clinic one day each week.

UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Shadyside are united into one integrated system known as UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside. UPMC Presbyterian is a major adult tertiary-care hospital and academic medical center located in the heart of the Oakland neighborhood. With more than 750 licensed beds, the hospital provides extensive adult inpatient medical and surgical services. As a designated Level I Trauma Center and certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, the hospital’s Emergency Department sees more than 55,000 patients each year.

The UPMC Shadyside campus of this hospital (located several miles away in the Shadyside neighborhood) is a major tertiary-care teaching hospital. With approximately 500 beds, the hospital offers primary medical care, physician and nursing education, and a broad range of specialties. This campus is home to the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.

UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Hospital is the flagship hospital of the UPMC consortium and serves as the primary tertiary referral center for cardiac electrophysiology in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia. This fact draws a wide variety of cardiac electrophysiology patients with problems that range from simple palpitations to complex ventricular arrhythmias to the institution for treatment by the CCEP faculty and fellows. This mix of cases provides the trainee with an exceptional clinical experience and the proximity to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine provides an opportunity to learn from some of the leaders in basic and cellular electrophysiology that reside at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Applications for the fellowship are accepted from the opening of ERAS from physicians who will have completed a three-year ACGME-accredited cardiovascular disease fellowship by the time the clinical cardiac electrophysiology program begins in July. All applicants must register and complete an application through the ERAS electronic residency application system.

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