Each week a joint pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery is held to discuss patients to be operated within the ensuing week or interesting cases that faculty wish to hear other’s opinions on management. Complex inpatient cases are often discussed. Faculty from the Division of Critical Care Medicine, nurses, and medical students are in attendance.

Fellows, with faculty supervision, organize the discussions for a monthly journal club. Twice monthly, lectures felt to be part of a core curriculum for training, are presented by faculty and staff within the division of cardiology, other divisions in Pediatrics and other departments of the College of Medicine. A weekly conference is held to discuss interesting patients who recently underwent diagnostic, interventional or electrophysiologic testing.

Travel to national meetings is provided yearly to each trainee. Fellows have always been encouraged to submit their research findings to Young Investigator competitions of the Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology or Society for Pediatric Research during their second and third years of training. Previous trainees have successfully competed in these programs.