Pediatric Cardiology

This is a 2 week rotation in Pediatric Cardiology for fourth year medical students. The elective rotation will be spent primarily in the outpatient setting. The elective is intended to broaden the student's experience previously acquired when caring for patients hospitalized with cardiovascular conditions. The outpatient rotation provides the opportunity to follow such patients who are not in need of hospital care, but who require on-going evaluation to detect further complications of their conditions. In clinic, the student will participate in the initial evaluation and management of patients referred from other health-care providers, such as murmurs, chest pain, and syncope. The student will be afforded the opportunity to learn to interpret electrocardiograms, become familiar with patients who need to undergo or have undergone heart catheterizations, electrophysiologic studies, treadmill stress tests, tilt-table tests, and/or surgery. The student will become familiar with some basic