Cardiology

The Cardiology Teaching program has been structured in theoretical aspects (500 hours in the course of three years), and in practical operational aspects (direct care for patients under the supervision of specialists from the institute itself), with a system of theoretical and practical evaluation.

Acquire specialized training in 21 disciplines that are cultivated at the Institute: Cardiology, Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, Intensive Cardiology Therapy, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Geriatric Cardiology, Pediatric Echocardiography, Pediatric Nephrology Cardiopulmonary Physiology, Kidney Transplantation, Rheumatology, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Pediatric Interventional Cardiology, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Cardiovascular Angiotomography.

With this, the country is endowed with high-level specialists who carry out efficient and humanitarian work with their profession to fulfill a social and professional function according to the demands of our territory.

With the beginning of the direction chaired by Dr. Fause Attie from April 1, 1999, fundamental changes were implemented in the teaching system of the National Institute of Cardiology "Ignacio Chávez" in order to adapt the teaching systems to the time that the Institute is living, and thus catch up with the changes that have undergone dizzyingly in medicine in recent years. Since the beginning of the management of Dr. Marco A. Martínez Ríos, as General Director, these processes have been maintained and perfected, to keep the human resources training process updated.