Intended Audience

Please note, this course runs concurrent with the CVBR, Echo, and ICBR.

This course is intended for Cardiologists, Cardiovascular fellows, Electrophysiologists and Electrophysiology fellows.

Course Description

Mayo Electrophysiology Review Course for Electrophysiology Boards and Recertification will provide the cardiologist and electrophysiologist with an overview of all aspects of cardiovascular electrophysiology. Well-known experts in each field will give in-depth didactics on state-of the-art subjects in electrophysiology and device therapy. Each lecture will include multiple question and answers with an electronic response system. Although this course is designed specifically to prepare the electrophysiologist specialist for the Electrophysiology Boards or Recertification, it will also provide the cardiologist or practicing electrophysiologist with an update on the latest knowledge and advances in electrophysiology. The full spectrum of electrophysiology practice will be reviewed, ranging from basic arrhythmia mechanisms and pharmacology, to catheter diagnosis and therapy, and device-based treatments. Special sessions reviewing maneuvers for arrthymia diagnosis in the eclectrophysiology laboratory and ablation of atrial fibrillation are included. There will be special sessions specifically for those participants taking the Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Certification Boards and Recertification Boards. The schedule includes numerous case based sessions, useful for board examinations and practice.

This course will also include a mock test using an ABIM Electrophysiology Module. Special sessions will be available providing useful adjunctive material including anatomy for the electrophysiology, minimizing ablation complications, and ablation of arterial fibrillation.

Special evening sessions will be available providing useful adjunctive material including anatomy for the electrophysiology, ablation biophysics and advanced mapping system review.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, the participants should be able to:

• Interpret intracardiac and electrocardiographic presentations of common arrhythmias, including:  AVNRT, WPW dependent tachycardias, atrial and ventricular tachycardias, and atrial fibrillation.
• Interpret intracardiac electrograms to plan ablative and device therapy strategies for patients.
• Analyze multicenter trials addressing optimal management of patients with cardiac arrest, those at risk for ventricular arrthymias, WPW, and atrial fibrillation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the common arrhythmia syndromes associated with channelopathies and the ECG/phenotypic aspects of these familial syndromes.
• Identify the muscular anatomy of the heart and how that facilitates arrhythmogenesis.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of ablation biophysics.
• Identify ECG/EGM features of various types of atrial flutters, VT in the normal heart, and atypical accessory tracts like Mahaim and fasciculoventricular fibers.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic electrophysiology of ion channels, gap junctions, and anisotropic conduction and how these can effect clinical arrhythmogenesis.
• Identify the mechanism of action and indications for antiarrhythmic drugs.
• Analyze normal and abnormal functioning of pacemakers and ICDs and their subsequent troubleshooting in the latter situations.

Course Registration Fee

Mayo Electrophysiology Review Course for Electrophysiology Boards and Recertification tuition is $825.00. For participants also attending the Cardiovascular Board Review Course, the Electrophysiology Boards and Recertification, tuition is $550.00.  Physicians registering ONLY for the Electrophysiology Boards and Recertification must register for the entire course.  Daily Registration is not applicable. 

Please note the early-bird registration deadline is August 26, 2008.  After this date, the fee will increase by $75.00.

Scholarship Information

Scholarship Nomination Request for the Electrophysiology Board Review and Recertification

We are inviting you to participate in a “scholarship program” to enhance the preparation for the Electrophysiology Board Review and Recertification of the trainees in your cardiovascular training program.  As Program Directors, we all understand the daunting effort that is required in order to assure that our cardiovascular trainees become knowledgeable in all aspects of clinical cardiac electrophysiology, a requirement to pass the American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty Board on clinical cardiac electrophysiology. 

We would like to offer a scholarship to exceptional fellows to attend our Electrophysiology Board Review and Recertification.  This course is an extensive four-day course, which covers all areas of clinical cardiac electrophysiology diseases through both didactic teaching as well as interactive board simulation question/answer sessions.  We are offering a scholarship program, in which outstanding current fellows from ACGME accredited EP fellowship programs are selected.  The fellow will receive complementary tuition ($825 value) to the 2008 EP Board Review Course, as well as a DVD set of the previous year’s lectures.  To view the 2008 Electrophysiology Board Review program schedule, visit: http://www.mayo.edu/cme/epbr/index.html. It would be envisioned that this fellow take this information back to hold teaching and discussion sessions with his/her peers.

The selection process will be based upon the qualities of 1) knowledge of clinical cardiac electrophysiology diseases, 2) interest in education and 3) leadership that the fellow has been able to demonstrate. 

If you would be interested in recommending one of your outstanding current fellows for this program, please send a Letter of Recommendation (please be sure to include the candidate’s name and contact information) and a copy of their curriculum vitae to: EPBR Scholarship by fax at 507-538-7234 or e-mail Stromberg.Jerrica@mayo.edu or mail to: EPBR Scholarship, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, CME Department, Plummer 2-60, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905. 

The deadline for receipt of the letter is Monday, June 2, 2008.

Thank you very much in advance for your consideration and we will look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Paul A. Friedman, M.D.
Thomas M. Munger, M.D.