Advanced Training Opportunities

Advanced clinical and research training opportunities offered by Duke Cardiovascular Medicine include the following.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The Duke Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center invites applicants for two types of fellowship programs:

Advanced Clinical and Research Track

Candidates who successfully complete this track will satisfy requirements for Advanced Competency in Cardiovascular MRI (Level 3) of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (PDF) and American College of Cardiology (PDF, 92Kb).

Post-Doctoral Research Track

This track is for those individuals interested in an academic career in cardiovascular MRI.

Both programs are for two years and begin July 1 of each year. Applications for July 1 must be received by January 15.

An application form can be downloaded here: Application (PDF) (20K). A CV cannot be used in place of this application. If you do not have Adobe™ you may download a Microsoft-Word format application: Application-Word (48K).

Please send complete application packages to the following address:

DCMRC Fellowship Program
Duke University Medical Center
DUMC Box 3934
Durham, NC 27710

Echocardiography

Duke provides advanced training in the performance and interpretation of echocardiograms, including two-dimensional, Doppler, transesophageal, stress and contrast applications. The Duke Echocardiography Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility based at Duke Clinic with a second fully functional laboratory at Duke Hospital.

Areas of ongoing research include:

Stress echo
Endocarditis
Cardiac resynchronization
Strain and strain rate imaging using speckle tracking
Three dimensional imaging
Myocardial perfusion contrast echo.

Outcomes research performed in conjunction with Duke Clinical Research Institute has also become an important focus of the laboratory.