Pediatric and Congenital Interventional Cardiology Training

ediatric interventional cardiology constitutes one of the fundamental disciplines within pediatric cardiac care, and cardiologists have now had the opportunity to train and practice in this dynamic field for over 40 years.Although difficult to determine precisely, the number of currently active pediatric interventional cardiologists in North America is estimated at 300.While early operators were largely self-taught, programs established training fellowships through the late 1980s and 1990s, and a core curriculum was first proposed in 1996. 1 This training guideline has been revised every decade based on society-sponsored expert consensus.2,3 In recent decades, fellows seeking advanced training in catheterization have competed for fewer than a dozen unaccredited fellowship positions in the United States and Canada.