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Community Cardiology Elective Opportunity
Click here for the Learning Objectives: Family Practice & Internal Medicine OCC Cardiology Elective (PDF format)
Goals:
- To experience community based cardiology
- To understand the links between community and academic practice
- To appreciate the integration of evidence into practice in a community milieu
- To experience comprehensive continuing cardiology care
- To obtain exposure to information systems and tools which expedite best practice in a community setting
- To learn to integrate simultaneous multi-tasking in a community milieu
- To appreciate the business aspects of running a community practice
Practice Description:
The Ottawa Cardiovascular Centre offers comprehensive cardiovascular care to a registered patient population of over 110,000 patients with over 25,000 active patients. Originally founded in 1987 by Drs. Joel Niznick and Brendan Quinn, we have grown to a six-cardiologist group. As well we have integrated three internists into the practice to deal with the broader aspects of cardiovascular risk. We provide cardiology consultation, cardiovascular risk assessment and on site cardiovascular non-invasive testing at two sites.
Available testing includes:
- Stress Testing
- Echo/Doppler
- Holter Monitoring
- Cardiac Event/Loop Recording
- Ambulatory BP Monitor
- Stress/Persantine Myoview
- Gated Nuclear Wall Motion
- Pacemaker follow-up (OCC)
Four cardiologists perform cardiac catheterization at the Ottawa Heart Institute (Drs. Joel Niznick, Brendan Quinn, Bruce Moran and Chamoun Chamoun). Dr. John Dawdy is a non-invasive cardiologist including nuclear cardiology. Drs. Quinn, Moran and Chamoun attend at the Montfort Hospital. Drs. Dawdy, Fulop and Niznick attend at the Ottawa Hospital with in-patient and non-invasive activities at the General Site and outpatient and non-invasive activities at the Riverside Site.
The Riverside Site of the Ottawa Hospital is being developed as the major outpatient centre of the Ottawa Hospital. A dedicated cardiology clinic comprising approximately 1500 sq. feet has been developed. The Montfort Hospital is a community based teaching hospital with a predominantly Francophone population.
The elective resident will have the opportunity to assess and follow patients in a community based setting, to supervise and interpret diagnostic testing, to follow the community cardiologist to various locations and to obtain a true sense of what it is like to practice out-side of an academic setting. The resident will be exposed to the organizational aspects of cardiology in terms of office management, information systems, patient education materials, community based teaching of family practice residents and the business aspects of running a busy out-patient facility
We feel that this elective opportunity is invaluable to the internal medicine or cardiology resident in assisting him/her with a career choice and is entirely complementary to an Academic Internal Medicine/Cardiology Residency Training Program. If interested, please respond to:
Joel Niznick MD FRCPC, Brendan Quinn MD FRCPC
Ottawa Cardiovascular Centre
502-1355 Bank St.
Ottawa K1H 8K7
Phone: 613-738-1584
Fax: 613-738-9097
Pager: 613-593-3053
E-mail: admin@ottawacvcentre.com
Web-site: www.ottawacvcentre.com
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