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James A Arrighi1, Sena Kilic2, Philip G Haines2
1Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI, USA. jarrighi@lifespan.org.
Current Cardiology Reports
|April 25, 2018
Summary
Current cardiac imaging training guidelines lack consensus on defining advanced cardiac imaging specialists. This ambiguity may hinder fellow recruitment and requires professional groups to reconvene for updated training guidelines.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Medical Education
- Medical Imaging
Background:
- Cardiac imaging training is guided by modality-specific recommendations.
- Defining an advanced cardiac imager has been debated for over a decade without consensus.
Purpose of the Study:
- To summarize current training guidelines for cardiac imaging.
- To offer recommendations for future cardiac imaging training guidelines.
Main Methods:
- Review of current training guidelines in cardiac imaging.
- Analysis of stakeholder perspectives on advanced cardiac imaging definitions.
Main Results:
- No uniform consensus exists on the definition of an advanced cardiac imager.
- Ambiguity in training guidelines may negatively impact fellow recruitment in cardiac imaging.
Conclusions:
- Relevant professional groups should reconvene to establish a consensus definition for advanced cardiac imaging.
- A clear definition is needed to guide future revisions of cardiac imaging training guidelines.
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