Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Calgary offers a Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Perioperative Trans-esophageal Echocardiography Fellowship. This fellowship provides trainees with academic and clinical educational opportunities in perioperative management of cardiovascular surgical patients, including advanced trans-esophageal echocardiography.

Program Details

The fellowship training offers the requisite knowledge, technical skills, and clinical experience to safely provide anesthesia care for patients undergoing a broad range of cardiovascular operations. The cardiac surgery program performs approximately 1100 to 1200 open heart procedures per year. In addition, the cardiovascular anesthesia group also provides care for a diverse group of patients undergoing non-open-heart procedures.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility criteria for the fellowship program are not specified in the provided context.

Program Structure

• One to two fellowship positions are offered per year, typically starting each July.
• Alternative start dates can be considered.
• Fellows can expect a learning environment that includes patients requiring a range of surgical procedures to address complex cardiovascular disease.

Research and Clinical Experience

The centre does not perform heart or lung transplantation, but assistance can be provided to fellows in organizing an elective in this area at another centre.

Faculty and Supervision

The Fellowship Oversight Committee and Program Supervisors are responsible for the program. Dr. Alexander Gregory, a cardiac anesthesiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, is involved in the program.

Program Manual and Policy

A CV Anesthesia Fellowship Program Manual and Fellowship Policy are available for download.

University Context

The University of Calgary is situated on land Northwest of where the Bow River meets the Elbow River, a site traditionally known as Moh’kins’tsis to the Blackfoot, Wîchîspa to the Stoney Nakoda, and Guts’ists’i to the Tsuut’ina. The university acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7.