A clinical Cardiologist specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, management, and rehabilitation of patients with diseases of the cardiovascular system. Life as a Cardiologist is fast-paced, exhilarating, and challenging; there will never be a dull moment in a career in Cardiology.
The NHG Cardiology Residency Programme positions the resident at the cutting-edge of cardiovascular research activity. This means that he/she will not have to make the difficult decision of choosing between a bedside clinical career and a procedure-based discipline. Instead, the resident will have the opportunity to apply contemporary evidence-based medicine to daily clinical practice. These include Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndromes and Pacemaker implantations for bradyarrhythmias that can be used to save lives instantaneously.
With the aim to groom all residents into international leaders in various cardiology subspecialties, our programme offers each resident a strong foundation in general cardiology as well as opportunities to develop in one or more specific areas of clinical competency. The resident can also expect to receive a holistic training experience from expert core clinical faculty members that will prepare him/her for a career as a pioneer in academic and clinical Cardiology.
Learning Experience
Programme Faculty
What Residents Say
FAQ
Contact Details
Curriculum
We have a structured 3.5-year resident-centered and outcome-based educational programme, which aims to enable each senior resident to achieve clearly defined competencies for each year of training and for each module they rotate through.
The emphasis for the first year senior resident is on acquiring the knowledge and bedside clinical skills of a cardiology consultant with a particular focus on prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with cardiovascular disorders.
The second and third year senior resident will learn the indications, contraindications and benefits of specific cardiac investigations and become increasingly consummate in performing cardiac investigations such as cardiac catheterization and echocardiography. The resident will also be mentored by faculty members on how to write clinical abstracts and papers, with the ultimate aim of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The resident will be given opportunities to present his/her abstracts and papers in local and overseas cardiology meetings.
The teaching programme and subspecialty modular rotations are designed to be comprehensive and clinically relevant. The senior resident will have at least 2 months' rotation in each cardiology sub-specialty and 6 months' rotation in General Medicine or Geriatric Medicine.
Rotations
The subspecialty modular rotations include:
1. Cardiac Catheterisation
2. Echocardiography
3. Nuclear Cardiology
4. Electrophysiology
5. Heart Failure
6. Acute Cardiac Care
7. Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Teaching Activities
The comprehensive scheduled didactic teaching activities include:
