In our comprehensive two-year ACGME-accredited fellowship program, you will gain extensive hands-on clinical experience, personalized instruction, and research opportunities from renowned physicians and investigators in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Fellowship Experience

Thank you for your interest Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program at the UAB. Our program is offered to PGY-7 and PGY-8 level candidates. Our program provides superior cardiology training in a collaborative environment. We have specialty clinics across our medical campus, which is anchored by our 1,200 bed inpatient center UAB Hospital—the eighth largest public hospital in the nation. The hospital is in close proximity to the Birmingham VA Medical Center, UAB Hospital Highlands campus, The Kirklin Clinic, and Children's Hospital of Alabama where fellows also train.

Clinical Training

Our goal is to produce physicians who are clinically competent in the broad field of Cardiac Electrophysiology, highly effective in a variety of clinical settings and possess habits of life-long learning to allow for continued growth in knowledge, skills and other aspects of a professional career in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Fellows participate an array of clinical cases, surpassing requisite training standards. Our program emphasizes advanced ablation techniques, atrial fibrillation, and complex atrial flutters, diagnostic ep studies, ablation of AVNRT, AVRT, atrial tachycardia, typical atrial flutter, evaluation of syncope, AV block, sinus node dysfunction, and cardiac arrest.

Additionally, trainees gain exposure to all facets of device implantation including pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy devices, and implantable loop recorders.

Our program ensures fellows are adept in all aspects of CCEP, poised for success in their professional journey.

Teaching Conferences

Our curriculum provides substantial learning opportunities through simulation exposure and conference training such as intracardiac and device tracings conference, ECG conference, journal club and clinical cum basic science research conference.

Research Opportunities

Numerous avenues for research and scholarly advancements are available at UAB. Whether trainees are utilizing the EP lab database and device remote monitoring database for clinical research, or exploring the Cardiac Rhythm Management Lab (CRML) for unique opportunities in basic research the potential and resources for research and exploration are expansive.

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