This provides intimate apprenticeship of the young people. The department has a modern computerized teaching room so that all the students have audio-visual aids and can progress at their own speed. Visiting students attend for short elective periods from foreign medical schools and are given individual teaching by the senior staff. The students feel welcome and participate in the daily life of the department. Residents undertake their clinical fellowship training after completing a compulsory period of training in Internal Medicine and passing their Israeli Board examinations.
Teaching is by practical supervised experience as well as direct theoretical training.
The goal of the Residency program is to graduate a mature human bedside cardiologist who has superb interpersonal skills as a physician, but a skilled electrocardiographer and echocardiographer who is also able to undertake and facile in all the practical skills of cardiac catheterisation, interventional procedures, electrophysiological studies and pacemaker implantation.