@DominicNjumbi@kmpdu Welcome Daktari to Be,remember consistency should be a value all along the journey,and when changamoto comes remember to top up your resilience...Humility and Hardwork will carry you a long way.
I wouldn’t necessarily recommend starting all the cardiology reading before fellowship unless you have extra time during your third year of residency.
That said, the following preparation was extremely helpful for me:
1. Marino's The ICU Book before the CCU rotation.
Cardiac Intensive Care By Dr Brown
A lot of cardiologists gradually lose touch with the intensive care aspect over time. As a fellow, being strong in ICU medicine can really help.
2. EKG books — read as many as you can. My favorites were:
◦The ECG Criteria Book Okeefe
◦Rapid Interpretation of EKG's Dubin
◦The Only EKG Book You'll Ever Need Malcom Thaler
3.I loved using a pocket cardiology book during my first year. I kept adding notes to it, and by third year it had become three times bigger. I did not use it as much later on, but it was invaluable early in training.
4. For echo, buy textbooks by Jae K. Oh, Catherine Otto, and board review by Allan L. Klein. I started reading them from the beginning of fellowship along with the Mayo echo videos, and it helped tremendously.
5. Finally, going home and reading Braunwald's Heart Disease on weekends and late evenings really helped reinforce everything I learned during the day. It is an excellent resource.
@CardioNerds has some excellent resources- wasn’t available when I was a fellow but I hear it’s incredibly useful
Pace yourself. Cardiology is a marathon, not a sprint.
If you are in your third year of internal medicine residency, I would start with the EKG books first.
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