Echocardiography
The Montreal Heart Institute's echocardiography laboratory is a high-capacity facility where 9,000 to 10,000 echocardiographies are carried out each year. A variety of pathologies are encountered, from the simplest to the most complex. The lab performs transthoracic echocardiograms, pharmacological, stress, and transesophageal echocardiograms, as well as specialized procedures in cardiac catheterization rooms during the closure of interventricular septal defects, alcohol septal ablations, or the percutaneous closure of perivalvular regurgitation.
The MHI offers one- and two-year fellowships to cardiologists from Quebec, Canada or abroad. Fellows are fully integrated into the service's clinical activities and work a minimum of three days per week in the laboratory. The other two days are dedicated to research activities. Fellows are also expected to be available for on-call duty in general cardiology at the hospital.
To obtain funding, candidates are advised to apply for grants from recognized agencies. The Department of medicine at the MHI offers scholarships; however, a limited number of scholarships are available and they are awarded on a competitive basis.
Eligibility
- Candidates who have previously completed cardiology training.
- Successfully completed USMLE step 2 or LMCC examination (exemptions from these examinations are possible if candidates are recommended by the dean of the faculty of medicine where specialty training was completed).
- See "Eligibility requirements" section for more details.
