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    Department

    • Department of Internal Medicine

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    Accreditation

    • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

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    Expected duration

    • 2 years

Fellowship details

Taught by highly skilled, motivated and dedicated staff this fellowship is based at the St. Boniface hospital cath-lab program—one of the busiest in the country—and is open to Canadian and international fellows.

Our structural program is vibrant, with over 5,000 diagnostic angiograms, 2,500 PCIs and about 60 TAVI procedures performed annually. As well, the nationally renowned CTO PCI program performs 60-70 procedures on an annual basis.

The Adult Interventional Cardiology Fellowship is the first program at the University of Manitoba to receive Area of Focused Competence (AFC) accreditation from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. We are proud of our high training standards and are committed to preparing future leaders in the field of interventional cardiology.

Admission and application requirements

Application deadline: April 30

To be considered for admission to the Adult Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, you must have a minimum of:

  • An undergraduate degree in medicine
  • Completion of training in general cardiology by the start date of the fellowship
  • Fluency in English

Meeting these requirements does not guarantee acceptance into the program.

How to apply

Your application to the fellowship program must include the following:

  • A formal cover letter
  • A current CV
  • Three reference letters

Please submit your application to Basem Elbarouni, program director, at belbarouni@sbgh.mb.ca.

Contact us

Basem Elbarouni 
Adult Interventional Cardiology Fellowship program director
3500-15 St. Boniface Hospital
409 Taché Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R2H 2A6 Canada

204-237-2390
204-233-4853