Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
Creighton University School of Medicine – Phoenix’s ACGME-accredited fellowship program in Cardiovascular Disease is ready to welcome you to the desert southwest.
Currently, our program recruits for 4 positions each year.
Mission
Produce physicians embodying the Ignatian value of Cura Personalis who aspire to become transformative leaders in their practice, institution and community by emphasizing clinical and scholastic excellence, patient-centered care, life-long learning and wholesome development of the individual.
Program Aims
- To train cardiology fellows with excellent clinical skills who can provide the highest quality cardiovascular care to patients with a focus on professionalism, patient safety, and delivering evidence-based medicine in a cost-effective manner.
- Through our curriculum, fellows will develop knowledge-seeking skills that enable them to critically analyze and apply evidence-based medicine. This will be accomplished through structured didactics on diagnostic and therapeutic principles and assessed through fellows’ progress in milestones related to medical knowledge and practice-based learning.
- The program aims to provide extensive exposure to diverse patient populations with common and rare cardiovascular disorders, together with state-of-the-art tools and technologies that support evidence-based cardiovascular care.
- The program aims to produce cardiologists who value scholarship and research as tools for lifelong learning, enabling them to apply emerging scientific knowledge to patient care and to contribute to the education of future learners.
The Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance
In 2017, Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (SJHMC), Creighton University (CUSOM), Valleywise Health, and District Medical Group (DMG) joined forces to form the Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance. The Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance supports Creighton University School of Medicine - Phoenix Graduate Medical Education by providing strategic, financial and operational resources.
