professionals within the next four decades. The main reason for the shortfall is that there has been a 25 percent reduction in the number of slots available for cardiology training in medical schools spurred by an ...

and women in the United States. At least 80 million people in the United States had at least one type of cardiovascular disease in 2006, including a history of acute heart attack (almost 8 million individuals), ...

increasing numbers of patients who are managing their multiple chronic conditions, we will of course need additional highly skilled people, said Dr. Janet Wright, the ACCs vice president for science and quality. Heart disease is the ...