Course Details

Pre-Course Session – Echo Focus
The Focus Session on Echocardiography is a 1.5-day session running partially concurrent with the Mayo Cardiovascular Board Review Course for Cardiology Boards and Recertification.

Geared towards cardiology fellows and practicing cardiologists with basic knowledge of echocardiography, this session is based entirely on echocardiography cases, covering the following:

• Doppler hemodynamics
• Evaluation of systolic and diastolic function
• Coronary artery disease
• Valvular heart diseases
• Cardiomyopathies
• Pericardial disease
• Cardiac conditions due to systemic diseases
• Echocardiography in heart failure
• Transesophageal echocardiography
• Tissue Doppler and strain imaging
• Evaluation of mechanical dyssynchrony for CRT

Use of echocardiography in clinical patient management is emphasized.

Those who attend the Echo Focus Session are encouraged to attend the entire course. The portion of the CV Board Review that it overlaps with on Saturday is recorded. This Echo Focus Session is not recorded

Cardiovascular Review for Boards and Recertification
Mayo Cardiovascular Review Course for Cardiology Boards and Recertification provides the internist and cardiologist with an overview of all aspects of cardiovascular medicine. Well-known experts in each field offer in-depth didactics on state-of-the-art subjects in cardiovascular medicine.

Each lecture is followed by a multiple question and answer session with an audience response system. Although this course is designed specifically to prepare the cardiovascular specialist for the cardiovascular boards, it also provides the internist or practicing cardiologist with an update on the latest knowledge and advances in cardiovascular medicine.