Show Interventional Cardiology programs the clinician behind your application

Question practice

Questions drawn from the realities of Interventional Cardiology

Practise explaining the clinical decisions, patient conversations and career experiences that matter in Interventional Cardiology—then handle follow-ups that ask for evidence behind your first answer.

1. 01

   Tell me about a time you observed an interventional cardiologist manage a critical situation, perhaps a major dissection or no-reflow phenomenon, and what you learned from their approach.

2. 02

   During a peripheral angiogram for critical limb ischemia, you identify a long, heavily calcified SFA occlusion; what are your strategies for revascularization and why?

3. 03

   How do you navigate the relationship with your general cardiology fellowship attendings and interventional cardiology attendings, especially if you receive conflicting advice on patient management?

4. 04

   A patient with end-stage heart failure and multiple comorbidities requests a PCI for a non-culprit lesion, despite a poor prognosis and limited expected benefit; how do you approach this ethical dilemma?

5. 05

   How would you critically evaluate the results of a new study claiming superiority of a novel technique for CTO PCI, considering potential biases or limitations?

6. 06

   Considering the transition from general cardiology fellowship, what additional specialized training are you seeking from an interventional program?