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| '''Cardiology''' is a specialty of [[internal medicine]], which is concerned with maintaining the health of the [[circulatory system]] as well as diagnosing and treating its disorders. [[Hematology]] deals with the blood itself; cardiology deals with the movement of the blood and [[lymph]]. | | '''Cardiology''' is concerned with maintaining the health of the [[circulatory system]]. |
| ==Graduate Medical Education==
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| To be board-eligible in cardiology, one completes an [[internal medicine]] or [[pediatrics]] residency, and then a typically three-year [[cardiology]] fellowship. At that point, the cardiologist is board-eligible in general cardiology.
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| The field, however, recognizes distinct tertiary subspecialties, and, in practice, quarternary skills.
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| *Cardiac electrophysiology
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| **Ablative and related interventions
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| **Implanted electronic devices
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| *Invasive cardiology
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| **Interventional cardiology
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| ***Angioplasty
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| ***Atherectomy
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