Cardiology Workforce Revisited

International medical graduates and the cardiology workforce.

Recent publications have expressed the view that there is a shortage of cardiologists and it is growing worse. Both an increasing demand and a diminishing supply of cardiologists have been projected. An increase in the number of international medical graduates (IMGs) who enter cardiology practice has been proposed as a remedy for a projected shortage. The IMGs have to overcome challenges includ...

Interventional Cardiology US Workforce: current challenges.

Cardiology workforce: there's already a shortage, and it's getting worse!

Working group 4: International medical graduates and the cardiology workforce.

Ventricular wall stress revisited. A keystone of cardiology.

Wall stress has been used as one of the parameters of myocardial mechanics. The present review focuses on recently developed data on ventricular wall stress, especially in relation to other newly developed areas in cardiology. In hypertensive hearts, there is a broad continuous spectrum in the structural and functional changes: those with low wall stress (inappropriate hypertrophy), those with ...