For Health Professionals
Curriculum Overview
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
