Mayo Clinic Echocardiography Review Course for Boards and Recertification (Blended Live and Online Learning)

What Makes Our Course Different?

• Blended Live and Online Curriculum through an advanced learning portal.
• Learners who engage in the live/online content found an increase in their pre/post-test scores of over 35%
• Online content allows adult learners to go at their own pace, identify and address their own knowledge gaps, and follow self-directed paths of learning to result in an overall more effective educational experience
• Personalized study guide provided based on your answers to a 125 question mock exam- maximizing the effectiveness of your study time
• Lectures presented by over 30 Mayo Clinic experts in each content area.
• Access to 2017 on-line lectures before this year’s live course.
• Complimentary printed syllabus
• Access to the course content through the 2019 board examination date
• Not taking the exam this year? Great opportunity for an excellent comprehensive echocardiography education course that offers 30.5 AMA PRA Cat 1 credits. 

This course is specifically designed to prepare attendees taking the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) certification examination. It has a focused emphasis on the NBE examination format, ultrasound physics, 2D and M-Mode, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, ischemic heart disease, heart failure and cardiomyopathies, pericardial disease, congenital heart disease, and newer imaging techniques. The course will review all aspects of cardiovascular ultrasound with a practical and clinical disease orientated focus. Well-known experts and recognized educators in each field of echocardiography will give in-depth didactic lectures pertaining particularly to integration of echocardiographic data into clinical practice. Each lecture will be followed by multiple choice type question and answer sessions facilitated by an audience response system. Special evening sessions will include a hemodynamic workshop and an entertaining game show involving the entire audience that will review highlights of material covered in the course.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Explain basic physical principles of ultrasound and instrumentation
• Correlate cardiac gross pathology with echocardiographic images
• Evaluate cardiac chamber size, left ventricular systolic and diastolic function, and right ventricular systolic function
• Analyze and interpret echocardiographic derived hemodynamic data
• Interpret transesophageal images and distinguish attributes and limitations versus transthoracic echocardiography
• Evaluate acute and chronic ischemic heart disease using standard and stress echocardiography
• Diagnose and quantify etiology and severity of native and prosthetic valvular heart disease
• Distinguish and differentiate causes of heart failure, cardiomyopathies, and pericardial disease
• Diagnose and differentiate cardiac masses
• Diagnose and distinguish diseases of the aorta
• Identify echocardiographic features of systemic disease with associated cardiac involvement
• Integrate new echocardiographic techniques

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This course is intended for cardiologists, echocardiographers, and cardiology fellows. Participants with working knowledge of echocardiographic techniques and applications will benefit most from this program.