Foundation Course in Cardiology
Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre
Queens Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals
Course Leader: Dr Alun Harcombe
Draft Course outline: Day 1. Wednesday 17th October 2007
Registration & Coffee: Foyer, Postgraduate Medical Centre 8:30 – 9:00
Bus leaves hotel at 8:15am and returns at 18:00hrs
Time
Activity / Tutor
09:00
Venue
Objective
Nos.
Introduction.
Objective setting. Group allocations.
Alun Harcombe
09:15 Echocardiography
Principles and Practice.
John Walsh
10:15 Coffee
Seminar room
G05/5a
Seminar room
G05/5a
1
10:30
Workshop I: Transthoracic,
Transoesophageal and Advanced
Echocardiography
John Walsh (three groups A, B & C)
13:00 Lunch (downstairs foyer)
Clinical Skills
training areas
1 to 3
1
14:00
Introduction to the cardiac
catheterisation laboratory
James Cotton
How to do it I: Moderator - Dr Pitt
Cardiac Catheterisation live cases:
- Radial approach
Haemodynamics/Right Heart Studies
Mike Pitt
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
How to do it II: Moderator - Dr Pitt
Cardiac Catheterisation live cases:
- Left and Right Heart Catheterisation
16:00 Tea
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
16:30
Clinical Skills
Training:
Gp. A area 1
Gp. B area 2
Gp. C area 3
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
14:30
15:00
15:30
17:30
20:00
Workshop II:
Interpreting coronary angiograms
Groups
A
B
C
Dr Pitt Dr Cotton Dr Harcombe
Review of outcomes and reflection
(Rotate at 50mins)
Course Dinner for tutors and students, Bentons Brasserie
Foundation Course in Cardiology
Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre
Queens Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals
Day Two: Thursday 18th October 2007
Time
Activity / Tutor
Venue
09:00
Cardiac Surgery for Cardiologists
Andy Owens
Seminar room
G05/5a
10:00
Implanting Permanent Pacemaker,
ICD and CRT Devices
Andrew Staniforth
Coffee
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
How to do it III:
Moderator – Dr Harcombe
Live case: Permanent Pacemaker
Lunch (downstairs foyer)
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
13:30
Workshop II:
Pacemaker programming and trouble
shooting. Groups A, B & C
Clinical Skills
training areas
1-3
2
15:30
Tea
16:00
Academic Cardiology/Research
Prof. Peter Weissberg
Clinical Skills
training area
2
16:30
Electrophysiology Studies &
Ablation
Dr Stuart Harris
Clinical Skills
training area
3
17:15
Review and Reflection
11:00
11:15
12:45
Objective
Nos.
4
Foundation Course in Cardiology
Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre
Queens Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals
Day Three: Friday 19th October 2007
Time
Activity / Tutor
Venue
09:00
“How to interact with Industry
Representatives – and How Not To”
Beccy Holmberg
Intra-aortic Balloon Pump
Principles and Practice
Mark deBelder
Coffee
Seminar room
G05/5a
Seminar room
G05/5a
2
Clinical Skills
Areas 1-3
2
13:00
Workshop III:
IABP Insertion and Trouble Shooting
Datascope
Clinician input:
Dr deBelder, Dr Harcombe
Lunch (downstairs foyer)
Problem
based
learning
I: Managing
arrhythmias
Andrew Staniforth
09:30
10:30
11:00
14:00 –
14:45
14:45 –
15:30
15:30
16:00 –
16:45
16:45
Clinical Skills Area 1
Group A
II: Complicated
myocardial
infarction
Alun Harcombe
Clinical Skills 2
Group B
Objective
Nos.
5
III: Complex heart
failure
John Walsh
Clinical Skills 3
Group C
C
A
B
B
C
A
Tea
Conclusion, Feedback & Certificates
Faculty
Mr Jonathon Allen, Medtronic UK
Dr Mark deBelder, Consultant Cardiologist, James Cook University Hospital,
Middlesbrough
Dr James Cotton, Consultant Cardiologist, Wolverhampton Heart Centre
Beccy Holmberg, Cardiovascular Industry Consultant
Dr Alun Harcombe, Consultant Cardiologist, QMC, Nottingham
Dr Stuart Harris, St. Bartholomews Hospital, London and King Georges
Hospital, Barking, Essex
Mr Andrew Owens, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, James Cook University
Hospital, Middlesbrough
Dr Mike Pitt, Consultant Cardiologist, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham
Dr Andrew Staniforth, Consultant Cardiologist, QMC, Nottingham
Dr John Walsh, Consultant Cardiologist, QMC, Nottingham
Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director, BHF, London
Sponsors
The organisers are extremely grateful for the generous support of all our sponsors
without whom the course could not have been arranged. Please take time to interact
with the sponsor’s representatives during coffee and lunch breaks, all of whom are
experienced cardiovascular professionals.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course students will:
1. Be familiar with the principles of transthoracic and transoesophageal
echocardiography.
2. Have understood and experienced the technology and procedures
involved in cardiac catheterisation, right heart studies, temporary
transvenous and permanent pacemakers, ICDs and Biventricular
devices, and intra-aortic balloon pumps.
3. Have explored the principles and technology
electrophysiology studies and radiofrequency ablation.
involved
in
4. Have gained experience in the fundamentals of cardiac surgery along
with cardiovascular physiology in the perioperative cardiac surgical
patient.
5. Be able to understand the process of decision making in cardiology.