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.