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Curriculum Overview

Areas covered through didactic lectures and clinical experience.

Areas Covered

Listed below is a sample of areas covered either through didactic lectures or clinical experience (or both) in the curriculum:

    • Cardiovascular anatomy, physiology, metabolism, molecular biology
    • Cardiovascular pharmacology
    • Cardiovascular pathology
    • Prevention of cardiovascular disease
    • Evaluation and management:
      • Coronary artery disease
      • Arrhythmias
      • Hypertension
      • Cardiomyopathy
      • Valvular heart disease
      • Pericardial disease
      • Pulmonary heart disease
      • Peripheral vascular disease
      • Cerebrovascular disease
      • Heart disease in pregnancy
      • Adult congenital heart disease
      • Cardiovascular trauma
    • Patient management:
      • Acute and chronic congestive heart failure
      • Acute myocardial infarction and other acute ischemic syndromes
      • Acute and chronic arrhythmias
      • Preoperative and postoperative patients
      • Cardiac transplant patients
      • Geriatric patients with cardiovascular disease
    • Diagnostic techniques:
      • MRI
      • Fast computed tomography
      • Positron emission tomography
    • Procedures and technical skills:
      • Elective cardioversion
      • Right and left heart catheterization (including coronary arteriography)
      • Exercise stress testing
      • Insertion and management of temporary pacemakers
      • Echocardiography
      • Pericardiocentesis
      • Programming and follow-up surveillance of permanent pacemakers
      • Cardiovascular rehabilitation
      • Intracardiac electrophysiologic studies
      • Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation
      • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and other interventional procedures
      • Interpretation of chest X-ray, electrocardiograms, ambulatory ECG recording
      • Radionuclide studies of myocardial function and perfusion

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