Education & Training

Video of American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) leadership explaining how the society recognized early the need for standardization and training for on and stepped forward to offer training for various point of care ultrasound (POCUS) users and to bring them into its membership. Image shows a critical care COVID patient being scanned with a Philips Lumify point-of-care ultrasound system with doctors on screen helping guide the user. #POCUS #ASE #ASE2023

ASE training clinicians as point-of-care ultrasound grows

The American Society of Echocardiography recognized the lack of training and standardization for point-of-care ultrasound users and decided to do something about it. 

SCAI President Sunil Rao, MD, explains the 2022-2023 SCAI accomplishments to improve interventional cardiology.

SCAI President Sunil Rao on how the society is helping advance interventional cardiology

Rao spoke with Cardiovascular Business at ACC.23 to detail some of SCAI's biggest accomplishments from the last year. 

DNA sequencing for inheritable heart disease

Heart Association: 5 principles for dealing with genetic testing that may unduly trouble patients

When should a clinician tell a patient they have a gene variant that appeared incidentally but may have ramifications for cardiovascular health?

cardiovascular risk infectious disease hospitalization

Internal infections serious enough to require hospitalization raise 30-day CVD risk: 2-country, multicohort study

Patients hospitalized for severe infectious diseases are at heightened risk of major cardiovascular-disease events within a month of admission date. 

An attendee tries out a hands-on TEE simulator in a packed GE Healthcare booth at ACC.23. Photo by Dave Fornell

ACC.23 emerges as a return to normalcy for the cardiology community

Attendance was higher for the conference in 2023 than in 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic. 

transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)

Simulations help 'accelerate the TEE learning curve' for cardiology trainees

Simulation-based training can help cardiology fellows improve their TTE abilities, even when instructors or equipment are in short supply. 

VIDEO: The need to develop the cardiology workforce

ACC President Edward T.A. Fry, MD, explains the need to better develop the cardiology workforce as the subspecialty faces a looming shortage of cardiologists. 

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American Heart Association and Cardiovascular Research Foundation announce a new annual meeting collaboration

“Harnessing the strengths of our two pioneering organizations with extensive experience in translating the latest scientific breakthroughs into practical therapies is crucial," says AHA CEO Nancy Brown.

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