Overview of the program

Program Director Paulette S. Wehner, MD, FACC, FCCP, FACP, is currently a Professor of Medicine at Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia. She currently serves as the Program Director for the Adult Cardiovascular Medicine Training Program and is the Chief of Cardiology at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Dr. Wehner received her medical degree from Marshall University School of Medicine where she also completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship. She completed a one-year Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at the Marshall University School of Medicine and Charleston Area Medical Center. Dr. Wehner’s research interests include gender differences in platelet activation and acute coronary syndrome. She has written abstracts, reviews, and articles for such journals as the American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation, and the International Journal of Obesity. She has lectured nationally on Cardiology and frequently serves as investigator for multi-center clinical trials. Her most prolific honors include her teaching awards, which include Outstanding Clinical Lecturer from the Marshall University School of Medicine at virtually every medical student level.

The Marshall University School of Medicine Cardiology Fellowship Program is a clinically oriented three-year program that fulfills the requirements as recommended by the Core Cardiology Training Symposium of the American College of Cardiology. Each year we participate through the subspecialty matching program and intend to match three Fellows. The medical school utilizes a combined clinical facility of a thousand beds encompassing two private hospitals and a Veteran's Administration Medical Center.

The Department of Medicine has 30 full-time faculty, the largest and most active department in the medical school.  The Faculty in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine have diverse research interests involving therapy of transient myocardial ischemia, nuclear diagnostic techniques, transesophogeal echocardiography, and angioplasty. New areas of interest are in epidemiology and preventive cardiology, utilizing quantitative coronary angiography and risk factor modification.

The Interventional program has assumed a leadership role in the community. Our goal is to develop clinical cardiologists prepared to function as proper consultants to well-trained primary care physicians, though there is significant opportunity in clinical and laboratory research. Applications should be submitted through ERAS and include your CV, personal statement, three letters of recommendation, USMLE scores for Steps 1, 2 and 3 and other documentation they require.

Our institution requires passing of Step 3 prior to being promoted from PGY-2. We highly recommend if you haven’t taken it, you do so prior to the interview season; otherwise, we may not be able to rank you for our match list and/or offer you a contract. Deadline for submission to our program is February 1. Upon review, selected candidates will be notified via email for personal interview by faculty members and current fellows. Please note: this institution does not sponsor H1B Visas.

Please visit our website  - http://musom.marshall.edu/cardiology/