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  1. Department of Surgery
  2. Divisions
  3. Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
  4. Education
  5. Traditional Fellowship
  6. Didactics

Didactics

There are weekly resident/fellow didactics sessions on Wednesdays at 6:15 AM. The fellows alternate presenting each week. The primary source of the curriculum is the STS Learning Center.

Didactics is followed by the CT surgery divisional meeting and Morbidity and Mortality Conference (M&M), which starts at 7:00 AM. Residents and fellows are expected to present cases in which they were involved.

Full UC San Diego conference schedule: 

  • Adult congenital heart disease conference (Monday, 7:00 AM)
  • TAVR conference (Tuesday afternoon, following completion of TAVR cases)  
  • Didactics (Wednesdays, 6:15 AM)
  • CT surgery divisional meeting and Morbidity and Mortality Conference (Wednesdays, 7:00 AM)
  • Thoracic Pathology and Quality Conference (Thursday, 6:30 AM)
  • Heart transplant/VAD selection committee (Thursday, 7:00 AM) 
  • Benign Esophageal Multidisciplinary Conference (Second Thursday of each month, 4:00 PM)
  • Coronary Catheterization Conference (Thursday, 4:30 PM) 
  • Complex Airway Multidisciplinary Conference (First Friday of each month, 7:00 AM)
  • Thoracic Oncology Multidisciplinary Conference (Friday, 12:00 PM) 
  • Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) Conference (Friday, 3:00 PM)
  • Lung Transplant Selection Committee (Friday, 3:30 PM) 

VA Hospital

  • Oncology Multidisciplinary Conference (Tuesday, 3:00 PM)

Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta

  • Oncology Multidisciplinary Conference (Monday, 7:00 AM) 

Rady Children’s Hospital

  • Congenital heart disease surgical conference (Tuesday, 6:30 AM)