OBJECTIVE
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 management problems.  

• Learn the pathophysiology of peripheral vascular diseases and its management problems.  

• Learn the details of management of patients in an inpatient and outpatient environment.  

• Learn the assessment and evaluation of patients in an inpatient and outpatient environment.  

• Learn to select the most proper and cost effective investigative procedure for patient assessment.  

• 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  

• Assist where needed, in data collection and data entry into the cardiovascular data bank.  

• Contribute to research projects and publications. 

ADMISSION CRITERIA

• MMed 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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