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'''Cardiology''' is a specialty of [[internal medicine]], which is concerned with maintaining the health of the [[circulatory system]] as well as diagnosing and treating its disorders. [[Hematology]] deals with the blood itself; cardiology deals with the movement of the blood and [[lymph]].
'''Cardiology''' is concerned with maintaining the health of the [[circulatory system]].
==Graduate Medical Education==
To be board-eligible in cardiology, one completes an [[internal medicine]] or [[pediatrics]] residency, and then a typically three-year [[cardiology]] fellowship. At that point, the cardiologist is board-eligible in general cardiology.
 
The field, however, recognizes distinct tertiary subspecialties, and, in practice, quarternary skills.  
*Cardiac electrophysiology
**Ablative and related interventions
**Implanted electronic devices
*Invasive cardiology
**Interventional cardiology
***Angioplasty
***Atherectomy

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Cardiology is concerned with maintaining the health of the circulatory system.