{"id":47531,"date":"2015-03-18T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=47531"},"modified":"2015-05-15T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T22:11:45","slug":"networking-opportunities-and-cardiology-bootcamp-at-acc-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2015\/03\/18\/networking-opportunities-and-cardiology-bootcamp-at-acc-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking Opportunities and Cardiology Bootcamp at ACC.15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/members\/sauravchatterjee996\/\"><b>Saurav Chatterjee<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a Cardiology fellow blogging this week for CardioExchange in San Diego at this year\u2019s annual ACC conference. For more of our ACC.15 coverage including late-breaking news and in depth analysis, stay tuned to our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/voices\/acc-15-headquarters\/\"><b>ACC.15 Headquarters<\/b><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As the annual scientific sessions draw to a close, a few of the other &#8216;small-but-engrossing sessions&#8217; deserve mention.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, a dedicated Fellows-in-Training (FIT) lounge served as a great venue for meeting people, networking, or just plain lounging while grabbing some snacks. The organizing committee deserves special kudos for setting this up. I don&#8217;t recall prior iterations of the ACC or other national meetings having a dedicated space for fellows and being successful simultaneously in helping them group together.<\/p>\n<p>A great session of EKG review by the superb Dr. Podrid in the FIT lounge held a relatively modest audience enthralled for two sessions in the afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>Informative networking and &#8216;meet-the-mentor&#8217; sessions again at the FIT lounge deserve a definite word of acknowledgement.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as a budding interventional Fellow I was absolutely enthralled by the bootcamp sessions set up by the TCT-ACC-i2 faculty. These were dedicated sessions where some of the most renowned interventionists in the country imparted pearls of wisdom in a case-based format for an audience largely comprised of interventional fellows or young faculty. I hope the other national societies\u2014as well as future ACC meetings\u2014will retain similar flavor and improve on these.<\/p>\n<p>Word of regret: while we as trainees keep hearing that academic medicine is losing attraction and many a devout follower, I personally feel that such bootcamp-like sessions\u2014for grant writing and one-on-one interactions with mentors to provide tips on how to survive and hopefully thrive in academia as Fellows or early career physicians in a busy specialty like cardiology, and many of its sub-specialties\u2014may be successful in retaining at least some of those giving up on pursuit of an academic career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saurav Chatterjee reports from the 2015 ACC conference with even more exciting opportunities for fellows in training and other health care professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47531","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\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}