Echo training

[leviathan]

Looking to get trained and board certified for TTEs but finding it extremely difficult to find that training time. I'm doing critical care but ultimately will be working in a community hospital without cardiology, so it would be beneficial to be able to do my own echos.

Does anyone know of programs anywhere across N. America that offer echo electives for non-cardiologists?

 

[fakin' the funk]

Looking to get trained and board certified for TTEs but finding it extremely difficult to find that training time. I'm doing critical care but ultimately will be working in a community hospital without cardiology, so it would be beneficial to be able to do my own echos.

Does anyone know of programs anywhere across N. America that offer echo electives for non-cardiologists?

What board/certification would you even sit for for TTE, if you're not a cardiologist?

 

[Xerxes1729]

You could get RDCS certification:
http://www.ardms.org/get-certified/RDCS/Pages/default.aspx

 

[metopic]

Looking to get trained and board certified for TTEs but finding it extremely difficult to find that training time. I'm doing critical care but ultimately will be working in a community hospital without cardiology, so it would be beneficial to be able to do my own echos.

Does anyone know of programs anywhere across N. America that offer echo electives for non-cardiologists?

what? a hospital without card's coverage?? that's not possible. like you can't even.

 

[psychbender]

what? a hospital without card's coverage?? that's not possible. like you can't even.

I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, but there are small community hospitals with no cardiologists. I used to moonlight in the OR at one such hospital. The nearest cardiologist was in "the city" about an hour or so away.

 

[leviathan]

As he said, a very large number of community hospitals are run by general internists without subspecialty backup. Still looking to find any centers in the US that would offer training.

 

[secants]

Echo fellowship: http://medicine.utah.edu/anesthesiology/periopecho/