OBJECTIVES
To provide the subspecialty cardiology fellow with the theoretical and practical aspects of clinical cardiology, preventive cardiology and cardiovascular rehabilitation.

DURATION
12 months

CONTENT

• Understand the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases, their symptomatalogy and problems in management.
• Learn the assessment and management of patients in an inpatient, outpatient and ICU/ CCU environment.
• Learn to select the most proper and cost effective investigative procedure.
• Learn the principles of electrocardiography and become skilled in the interpretation and reporting of electrocardiograms.
• Learn the principles and methodology of exercise electrocardiography and become skilled in the interpretation and reporting of exercise electrocardiograms.
• Learn the pathophysiology of exercise and its use in the rehabilitation of patients in an inpatient and outpatient environment.
• Learn the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and risk factor modification for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
• Learn cardiovascular epidemiological principles and their applications.
• Be directly involved in the teaching of cardiovascular medicine and in the organisation of lectures, conferences and preparations of teaching materials.
• Be responsible for detailed data collection and data entry into the cardiovascular data bank.
• Develop protocols for research and become actively involved in research projects and publications.

ADMISSION CRITERIA

• MMed (Internal Medicine), MRCP (UK) or its equivalent
• Applicants who have completed 3 years training in internal medicine can also be considered.

HANDS-ON TRAINING
Yes

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