Training Programmes

OBJECTIVES
To provide training in the theoretical and practical aspects of Cardiac Computed Tomography.

DURATION
3 months - 6 months

CONTENT

Core Curriculum

• Basic cardiac anatomy and cardiac morphology

• Understanding the normal coronary architecture

• Understand basic radiation physics and risks of medical radiation

• Principles of CT and it's evolution

• Principles of Cardiac CTA

• Understanding Gating and it's importance

• Appropriateness Criteria for Ordering Cardiac Calcium Scores and Cardiac CTA

• Clinical application of cardiac calcium scoring in lipid therapy, prognostication and risk stratification

• CT angiography : Clinical applications - what to do with the results

• Pulmonary nodules : Fleischner Criteria and PIN registry data

Hands on Module

• Calcium scores.  How to perform and interpret results

• Calcium scores. What to do with the results in a clinical setting

• Cardiac CTA - The normal cardiac CTA

• Cardiac CTA - Mild and moderate lesions

• Cardiac CTA - Severe and occluded segments

• Functional Cardiac CTA.  EF assessment

• Cardiac CTA - anomalies

• Bypass graft assessments

• Stent assessments

• Extra cardiac findings

Completion of at least 150 mentored cases of cardiac CT/Calcium.

ADMISSION CRITERIA

• MMed, MRCP or its equivalent.  

• Completed at least 2 years of general training in Cardiac Radiology or relevant ares of Cardiology.  

HANDS-ON TRAINING
Yes