2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA/ISHLT/ACP Advanced Training Statement on Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

Since the 1995 publication of its Core Cardiovascular Training Statement (COCATS)(1), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) has played a central role in defining the knowledge, experiences, skills, and behaviors expected of all clinical cardiologists upon completion of training. Subsequent updates have incorporated major advances and revisions—both in content and structure—including, most recently, a further move toward competency (outcomes)-based training, and the use of the 6 domain competency structure promulgated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties, and endorsed by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). A similar structure has been used by ACC to describe the aligned general cardiology lifelong learning competencies that all practicing cardiologists are expected to maintain. Many hospital systems also now use the 6-domain structure as part of medical staff privileging and peer-review professio...