Understanding the perspective of early-career cardiologists is important to design
effective responses to the challenges in modern cardiovascular (CV) training programs.
We conducted a web-based survey on a total of 272 early-career cardiologists (within
10 postgraduate years) who registered for the 2011 annual Japanese Circulation Society
Meeting. Main outcome measures were satisfaction with their training, confidence in
their clinical skills, and professional expectations, scaled from 0 to 10. The median
training time was 6 years, with 2 years for internal medicine and 4 years for CV disease.
Most received their training in university hospitals at some point during their career
(79.5%) and were interested in a subspecialty training, such as interventional cardiology
(38.6%), electrophysiology (15.1%), and advanced heart failure (10.3%); only 9.6%
showed interest in general cardiology. The respondents felt comfortable in managing
common CV conditions such as coronary artery disease (average score 6.3 ± 2.4 on an
11-point Likert scale) but less so in peripheral arterial disease (3.8 ± 2.8), arrhythmias
(3.7 ± 2.3), and congenital heart disease (2.9 ± 2.2). Their satisfaction rate with
their CV training positively correlated with their clinical proficiency level and
was associated with volume of coronary angiograms, percutaneous coronary interventions,
and echocardiograms completed. In conclusion, the current young cardiologists have
a positive perception of and interest in procedure-based subspecialty training, and
their training satisfaction was related to volume of cardiac procedures. Additional
effort is needed in enforcing the training in underappreciated subspecialty areas.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: June 07, 2014
Accepted:
May 27,
2014
Received in revised form:
May 27,
2014
Received:
March 17,
2014
Footnotes
This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) Grant Number 25460630.
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