Interactive Learning Lab

Experience hands-on training, interactive case discussions, and more in the Interactive Learning Lab! This unique educational opportunity puts new technology in your hands and offers a selection of stations to augment the learning that takes place in the traditional session room. 

 

Hands-On Echo Simulation

This hands-on workshop uses a live model and an echo simulator where CV Team members can obtain basic 2D echo images. This program will provide intensive repetition of echo images to improve image recognition in a short time frame. This session will give members of the CV Team an appreciation for normal cardiac anatomy by 2D echo as well as an opportunity to obtain their own images on a live model under expert guidance.

 

Expert Case Discussions

Join us for an intimate discussion with subject matter experts who will lead engaging discussions on real life cases submitted by attendees in each of our learning pathways: arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, heart failure, prevention, and valvular heart disease. These sessions will offer high interactivity for participants through the use of an open Q&A forum.  More information on how to submit your case coming soon!

 

Personalized Skills Area (iPads)

Sharpen your core cardiology skills while learning at your leisure on iPads by engaging in Heart Songs or ECG Drill and Practice modules. This is a uniquely dynamic learning opportunity you won’t want to miss!

 

Heart Songs

Research reveals that cardiologists failed to identify more than half of basic murmurs and about 35 percent of advanced murmurs when challenged at a major medical meeting, but skills improved after a 90-minute training session. Heart Songs provides you with a unique audiovisual experience specifically designed to refresh your cardiac auscultation skills. This clinical skills workshop features three “tracks”:

 

  1. Common heart murmurs
  2. More advanced sounds such as bicuspid aortic valve and mitral valve prolapse
  3. Expert murmurs such as combined aortic stenosis and regurgitation, or combined mitral stenosis and regurgitation

 

First, pick a track and assess your baseline skills by taking a confidential pretest. Then simply view videos featuring classic heart murmurs accompanied by phonocardiograms and colour Doppler echoes. Each video includes hundreds of repetitions of its murmur, and studies show that simple repetition is all you need to master a new sound. Watch the videos as many times as necessary to see a significant improvement on your posttest scores (most people need to watch 2 to 4 times). Each Heart Songs track takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and sessions are self-paced.

 

Heart Songs makes sure you know what your stethoscope is telling you!

 

ECG Drill & Practice

Brush up on your ECG interpretation skills with ECG Drill & Practice. Using our online Learn-Practice-Perform model, you will be able to:

 

  • Learn about some the most common abnormal ECG findings as well as how to differentiate them from each other
  • Practice your interpretation skills in comparison to our experts with online flash cards
  • Practice/Perform a simulated ECG test featuring the format and answer options similar to those of the ABIM’s certifying examination in cardiovascular disease and compare your answers to the experts

 

Brush up on a core cardiology skill with ECG Drill & Practice’s 100+ ECGs and expert insight!