{"id":42422,"date":"2014-03-28T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&#038;p=42422"},"modified":"2014-03-30T13:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T17:16:45","slug":"changing-priorities-for-my-acc-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2014\/03\/28\/changing-priorities-for-my-acc-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing My Priorities for ACC.14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Several Cardiology fellows who are attending ACC.14 in Washington, D.C. this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The fellows include <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/kumardharmarajan775\/\">Kumar Dharmarajan<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/sethmartin189\/\"><strong>Seth Martin<\/strong><\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/sauravchatterjee996\/\"><strong>Saurav Chatterjee<\/strong><\/a>. For more of our ACC.14 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/voices\/acc-14-headquarters\/\">ACC.14 Headquarters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just reviewed the meeting itinerary on my way to D.C., and to my surprise, gravitated not towards the late breakers or quality of care and outcomes research-related sessions as I have in the past, but to talks sounding like textbook chapters or journal reviews: &#8220;Approaches to the Management of\u00a0Pulmonary Hypertension&#8221;; &#8220;Prosthetic Valve Complications&#8221;; &#8220;Under-recognized and Challenging Cardiomyopathies&#8221;; &#8220;State of the Art for Secondary and Resistant Hypertension&#8221;; and so on.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt initially confused, I now realize that with my time in fellowship rapidly dwindling, I have an increasing urge to consolidate my knowledge. I just had a baby girl and cannot help wondering, &#8220;Is this the career equivalent of nesting for my next life as a general cardiology attending?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are other graduating fellows feeling similarly?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow finds that, as his life and career changes, so does his choice of itinerary at ACC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1206,1187,195],"class_list":["post-42422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-american-college-of-cardiology","tag-cardiology-conferences","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42422","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\/544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}