{"id":27455,"date":"2012-03-23T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&#038;p=27455"},"modified":"2012-03-25T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:57:10","slug":"early-morning-early-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/03\/23\/early-morning-early-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning, Early Start to ACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending ACC.12 this week are blogging together on CardioExchange.\u00a0 The Fellows include\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/tariqahmad627\/\">Tariq Ahmad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/williamcornwell\/\">Bill Cornwell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/megancoylewright\/\">Megan Coylewright<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/jeremiahdepta943\/\">Jeremiah Depta<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/johnryan\/\">John Ryan <\/a>(moderator). Read the first post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/fellowship-training\/acc-2012-at-chicago-hosting-the-world\/\">here<\/a>. Read the next one <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/fellowship-training\/honoring-the-legends\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I arrived at the airport in Rochester this morning at 6 a.m., it was dark (but, amazingly, warm). Already, half a dozen fellows and consultants with suitcases in tow were there, ready for Chicago. The banter was light; everyone seemed excited for reconnecting, learning, sharing, networking, and, for us from quiet, southern Minnesota, some needed time in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Before the meeting even starts, we get the opportunity to sit down with some of the greatest leaders in our field: Drs. Braunwald, Colombo, Fuster, Somerville and Yacoub at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abstractsonline.com\/Plan\/ViewSession.aspx?mID=1668&amp;sKey=871948d3-ec0f-4ac7-b2fa-1dba6f292bab&amp;mKey=%7b86D3D797-1DEA-4B4D-A5C5-A402B3E95F8C%7d\">Legends of Cardiovascular Medicine Roundtable<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be heading over in a bit to McCormick Place, South Building, Room S100c for this landmark event of &#8220;where we are and what the future holds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few friends of mine are also leading a charge to get fellows on camera during ACC 2012 &#8212; these &#8220;roving reporters&#8221; will be wanting your two cents worth on posters, sessions, social events and the like. I hope you&#8217;ll indulge us and provide short snippets on how fellows experience the meeting. Looks like John and Tariq have shared <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/fellowship-training\/acc-2012-at-chicago-hosting-the-world\/\">some great resources<\/a> to get us all started.<\/p>\n<p>See you all soon,<\/p>\n<p>Megan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of five Cardiology Fellows blogging at ACC.12 hits the ground running, early on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1169,195],"class_list":["post-27455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-acc-12","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}