Does any one know how to get ECT certified in your program. What is the procedure ? If ECT is available in their work setting.
ECT certification
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Bump....for certification.
I searched the internet and wiki says there is no official licensing. I just figured I'd toss this out on here as I'll be doing a month of them and if I can get certified I had might as well since I'm there. Some one will certainly want to make money off of me right?
I searched the internet and wiki says there is no official licensing. I just figured I'd toss this out on here as I'll be doing a month of them and if I can get certified I had might as well since I'm there. Some one will certainly want to make money off of me right?
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"Certification" is essentially dependent on the credentialling committee of the hospital where you will be performing the procedure. As a resident I did extra time on the ECT service, and the attending in charge of that service produced a letter indicating how many procedures I had done under his supervision, etc. That helped, but when I was hired I was still supervised for 20-30 procedures before I was "approved" to do it independently.
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All priviliging is done by a hospital by hospital basis and there is no uniform guideline other than some minimal APA task force guidelines that every residency program can easily surpass. You have two options to gain some form of paper certification:
1) Talk with your program director to see what rotations/experience it takes to write a letter at the end of your residency saying they certify you as a competent ECT provider.
2) You could also take the ECT course offered just before the APA conferences (held by the organization below).
This is the international society that also offers a regular journal publication. It is worth joining. http://www.isen-ect.org/
As a side note to this society for those who are still figuring their rank lists the board of directors and officers herald from Wake Forest, Duke, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, Mount Sinai, North Shore Health System, Einstein, and Columbia.
1) Talk with your program director to see what rotations/experience it takes to write a letter at the end of your residency saying they certify you as a competent ECT provider.
2) You could also take the ECT course offered just before the APA conferences (held by the organization below).
This is the international society that also offers a regular journal publication. It is worth joining. http://www.isen-ect.org/
As a side note to this society for those who are still figuring their rank lists the board of directors and officers herald from Wake Forest, Duke, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, Mount Sinai, North Shore Health System, Einstein, and Columbia.
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