[MUSIC PLAYING] ADAM BURDORF: The strengths of our program may be line or numbers. We see a diverse patient population. We see a lot of different illnesses. We see a broad spectrum of cardiovascular disease. So we see a lot of numbers patients wise. But our program is small enough where I feel like our learners can identify and really get to know the staff. 

RADHA KANNEGANTI PERUE: We are a large fellowship program, a large hospital center with still a personal touch in terms of the relationships between fellows and staff. 

DANIEL ANDERSON: The thing I love most about UNMC is the team I work with. 

ROBBIE GARVIN: Everybody does get along well and works well together, which makes even the hard days a lot easier. 

DAVID PRATT: I've always felt like a colleague, even from day one, never felt like I was on a totem pole. I have always felt like my attendings respected me as one of their colleagues. 

ADAM BURDORF: So we're trying to give our fellows the most well-rounded education that they can get. That's important because that allows them to make very informed decisions about their future 

DANIEL ANDERSON: The facilities we have here are spectacular, new state-of-the-art labs built two years ago, really advancing our skill sets. 

ROBBIE GARVIN: We get a lot of different pathology, a lot of different patients, not to mention just within the Omaha metro, but the surrounding states as well. 

RADHA KANNEGANTI PERUE: The cath lab itself is well equipped. In terms of imaging, we do MRIs here, we do nuclear studies here, we do CTs here. 

ADAM BURDORF: What we've really tried to do is listen to our fellows, our trainees, and ask them what they've noticed they needed in order to succeed. I think if you have an open ear and are willing to be dynamic and make changes necessary for the fellowship, I think we empower them to be self-aware and get better and be the best provider that they can be. 

DAVID PRATT: The diversity of the faculty is one of the highlights of this program. I think the training backgrounds and the different ways that they practice is a asset to a trainee to learn all the different ways that you can do the same thing. 

STEPHEN ROBERTS: They really want to invest in you, invest in your education, and prioritize that. 

KALI GAGNON: They strive to make their fellows as confident and help build them and mold them into good leaders. 

ADAM BURDORF: You can be the best test taker there is and look very smart on paper. But we want someone that's able to take that knowledge, distill it down to what our patients need to know and successfully care for those patients. 

STEPHEN ROBERTS: That's one of the beautiful things about cardiology is although it can be very symptomatic, life altering, there's usually something we can do to help the patient and bring them back to that quality of life that they were hoping to achieve. 

DAVID PRATT: The benefits of training at UNMC is that it opens up doors. It opens up the possibility of pursuing an academic career. It opens up the possibility of doing a private career. And the training prepares you for both of those. 

RADHA KANNEGANTI PERUE: You'll have a breadth of opportunities here and a depth of opportunities here in terms of complexity and variety of pathology that you have the opportunity to explore in this program that you may or may not have at another program. 

STEPHEN ROBERTS: Compared to other programs, more opportunities for interaction between people of similar interests. So we often go out and get drinks, go to restaurants together, and experience experienced life in Omaha. 

KALI GAGNON: There are lots of free music festivals all around town and all the different districts that Omaha has to offer. I must say that Omaha grew on me. It has the amenities of a city, but it's cleaner, calmer, nicer in some ways. And the cost of living is very affordable. 

RADHA KANNEGANTI PERUE: People here are very open arms and understanding and nice and, again, approachable. And I've enjoyed meeting people here in Nebraska. 

DANIEL ANDERSON: We're a great commodity. We really have a fellowship program here that is becoming more and more attractive. We're participating in national trials. We are presenters at plenary sessions at national meetings. We have faculty who have trained at the best institutions around the country. And that's the team they get to join. 

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