<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1bGYR9_0vlseGir00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1bGYR9_0vlseGir00" width="675" height="396" ><p><b>Program enhances ability to recruit, train future physicians, expand access for patients</b></p><p>Roseville, Calif. – Sutter Roseville Medical Center received national accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for a new cardiovascular disease medicine fellowship program for physicians. This is the latest graduate medical education track in Roseville for Sutter Health that will significantly help expand access to high-quality, equitable care and distinguish the organization as a best place to practice medicine, conduct research and learn in benefit to the system’s patients and diverse communities.</p><p>“This is the-first-of-its-kind accredited fellowship for cardiovascular disease medicine at Sutter Roseville. Our fellows will train under board-certified and licensed cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons with extensive teaching experience among the latest technology. They will mentor trainees and instill in them a desire for lifelong learning, continual inquiry and clinical excellence with a goal of improving their cardiology practices throughout their careers,” said George Fehrenbacher, M.D<b>.</b>, a cardiologist who will oversee the fellows as program director.</p><h2>Heart attack care and Level II trauma center</h2><p>Sutter Roseville Medical Center is a leader in heart attack care with high patient volume that will provide fellows with hands-on experience in cardiology. Fellows will train at Sutter Roseville Medical Center as well as Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento. They will have clinical rotations consulting with patients admitted into the hospital for echocardiography, cardiac catheterization laboratory, nuclear cardiology, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, cardiac surgery and cardiac electrophysiology. There will also be an opportunity to rotate through patient clinics focused on valve/structural heart disease, advanced heart failure, electrophysiology and adult congenital heart disease.</p><p>Sutter Roseville Medical Center is a 382-bed hospital and a Level II trauma center that provides 24-hour emergency care, inpatient and outpatient surgery, obstetrics, cardiology, cancer services, nuclear medicine, diagnostic imaging and intensive care. It was the first teaching hospital in Placer County in 2022 when the medical center welcomed 23 resident physicians in nationally accredited internal medicine and surgery programs. Sutter Roseville is now also the largest teaching hospital in the Sutter Health system with nearly 100 resident physicians and fellows.</p><h2>Expanding training</h2><p>“Our system remains on pace to become one of the largest community-based health care training institution in Northern California,” said Lindsay Mazotti, M.D., Sutter Health’s chief medical officer of medical education and science. “We are expanding our graduate medical education footprint to train and graduate 1,000 resident and fellow physicians each year by 2030, and each year thereafter. Our vision for graduate medical education at Sutter is to develop compassionate, collaborative, diverse and innovative physician leaders who deliver the highest quality care and enhance the health of the patients and communities we serve.”</p><p>Recruitment for the cardiovascular disease medicine fellows will begin immediately. It is a three-year fellowship program that will support three fellows a year for a total of nine fellows. The first fellows will arrive for the 2025-2026 year.</p><p>For more information about Sutter Health’s growing graduate medical education programs, visit www.suttermd.com/education/gme.</p><p>Roseville Today is locally owned &amp; community supported.</p><p>(21+ years strong) </p><p>Welcome to the brighter side! </p></div></body>

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Sutter Roseville Medical Center receives accreditation for cardiology fellowship

Program enhances ability to recruit, train future physicians, expand access for patients. Roseville, Calif. – Sutter Roseville Medical Center received national accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education for a new cardiovascular disease medicine fellowship program for physicians. This is the latest graduate medical education track in Roseville for Sutter Health that will significantly help expand access to high-quality, equitable care and distinguish the organization as a best place to practice medicine, conduct research and learn in benefit to the system’s patients and diverse communities.