Simulator Training to Improve Interventional Cardiologist Skills (STARTERS) Trial

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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if simulator-based training will improve
 interventional cardiology fellows' skills and will improve patient outcomes.
 
 The main questions it aims to answer are:
 
 - Does this training improve specific operative parameters recorded during initial
 coronary interventions performed as first operators under senior supervision?
 
 - Will major and minor procedural complications be reduced after simulator-based training?
 
 Interventional cardiology fellows in their first year of training will be randomized between
 standard master-apprentice training or simulator-based training before starting their cath
 lab period.
 
 They will be supervised during their cath lab period as first operators by senior
 interventional cardiologists.
 
 During their first 50 procedures performed as supervised first operator, specific procedural
 data will be collected.