Cardiology Fellowship

Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in MercyOne North Iowa’s Cardiology Fellowship program. Before exploring our website, we encourage you to review the following introductory information about our program.

The program began in 1989 as an AOA (American Osteopathic Association) accredited fellowship program. We received ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) initial accreditation in July of 2017.

The fellowship program is based at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center located in Mason City, Iowa. MercyOne is a community-based hospital of over 200 acute beds. The hospital serves as a 14-county regional referral center approximately 33,000 emergency room visits a year, 11,500 acute inpatient discharges per year and 450,000 observation and outpatient visits a year. The physicians of the Mason City Clinic Department of Cardiology serve as faculty for the fellowship program. In addition, the comprehensive heart program includes a cardiac surgeon who performs about 300 open-heart operations annually.

MercyOne North Iowa has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospitals in the nation by Solucient, a health care information firm. Extensive clinical training is supported with experience in MercyOne North Iowa’s cardiac medical stepdown unit, cardiovascular recovery unit and cardiac catheterization laboratory as well as consulting and outpatient activities. Upon completion of the fellowship, the candidate will be qualified to perform diagnostic angiography, pacemaker implantation, TEE, transthoracic echocardiography and nuclear stress testing.

The goal of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program is to provide fellows with comprehensive structured cognitive and procedural clinical education in both inpatient and outpatient settings

Enabling them to become competent, proficient and professional cardiologists in the six core competencies.

This training will further enhance MercyOne North Iowa's ability to provide healthcare to a population in need of more physicians in Northern Iowa.

Mission Statement

To provide exceptional, personalized, convenient, and compassionate patient care in Central North Iowa by providing fellows with a diverse and individualized training environment that encourages evidence-based medicine, rigorous inquiry, team-based interdisciplinary collaboration, fellow wellness, and service to our communities, including the poor and most vulnerable.