USC's cardiovascular fellowship to be stripped of national accreditation
LOS ANGELES - A national oversight panel has moved to revoke the accreditation of the University of Southern California medical school's fellowship in cardiovascular disease, an embarrassing blow to the once-vaunted training program.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education formally notified USC and Los Angeles County that their jointly run fellowship program will lose its accreditation next year, effectively shutting it down.
The panel did not publicly state the reasons for the action. But it comes a year after revelations
