Fellowship Program Facilities

Inpatient Experience

The fellowship program is integrated among two core hospitals: University Hospital and Audie Murphy Division, South Texas Veterans Health Care Systems. The 563-bed University Hospital is a major tertiary referral center for South Texas, and is the institution responsible for providing care to the indigent population of Bexar County. The Audie Murphy Division, a 674-bed Dean's Committee hospital, is part of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System and is one of the newest VA hospitals in the U.S. Both of these hospitals are staffed full-time by faculty members in the Division of Cardiology.
 

Each hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art cardiac facilities including a coronary care unit, a telemetry / step-down unit, noninvasive cardiology laboratory, two cardiac catheterization laboratories, cardiac surgical suites, and surgical intensive care units. Both hospitals are physically interconnected to UTHSC which houses the clinical and basic science components of the medical school.
 

Outpatient Experience

Ambulatory cardiology experience is obtained during two weekly cardiology clinics at the University Health Center-Downtown (UHC-D) and at the VA Hospital. In both of these clinics, the cardiology fellow follows patients longitudinally, allowing for long-term management of complex cardiac patients. Cardiology faculty teach and supervise outpatient care during each clinic session.
 

The large patient population at these two hospitals and clinics provides the cardiology fellow with a wide diversity of patients who have an extraordinary variety of acute and chronic cardiac diseases, allowing for cardiovascular disease.