title: Training pediatric residents to evaluate congenital heart disease in the current era.
abstract: Working with young pediatricians to create an exciting educational environment in which to learn cardiology remains a challenge for all of us. Numerous forces impact our efforts, making the process of training residents to evaluate and treat congenital heart disease in the current era a dynamic and, at times, difficult endeavor. This article considers the changes that have occurred in the medical school graduate who chooses pediatrics and subsequently pediatric cardiology as a career; explores the changes in the graduate medical training guidelines, requirements, and restrictions that have been put into place within the last several years; and discusses the seemingly constant advances in scientific understanding and technology that shape our field and move us forward as a discipline.
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
authors.forename: Bevin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.forename: Alan H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000193:education*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology