In cardiology training, the training takes place on a rotation basis. The junior doctors pass through various disciplines: the outpatient clinic with a focus on echocardiography or rhythmology, the ward and emergency service, as well as the cardiac catheterization laboratory. This guarantees practical, versatile and well-founded further training.

All junior doctors are assigned a personal tutor (senior doctor, senior physician) for the entire duration of their training. This structured mentoring enables individual support and clarification of questions relating to personal development. The Heart Clinic also offers the great advantage of 1:1 teaching in numerous clinical situations – from ward rounds and performing procedures (diagnostic coronarography, pleural punctures) to supervising echocardiographies of complex patients or pacemaker and ICD checks in the outpatient clinic. This ensures a continuous learning process with direct practical relevance at a high level.

In cardiac surgery training, too, supervision is based on the tutorial principle. Residents are closely supervised by experienced cardiac surgeons. The intensive 1:1 collaboration enables hands-on learning directly with patients. The assistant doctors are assigned to the operating theater every day and can thus gain extensive surgical experience. Surgical skills are developed in a very progressive and stage-appropriate manner.

For both training programs, we offer a joint, multi-layered and structured internal training program. At least three events are held each week with a Core Curriculum, Journal Club, case presentations and Echo-Chränzli. In addition, we discuss all cases of structural heart disease for which interventions or operations are planned at the Heart Clinic’s Heart Valve Indication Board on a weekly basis. If you are interested, there is always the opportunity to participate in larger and smaller research projects and to publish cases or small case series. Participation in other in-house, national or international training programs is also possible by arrangement.