Title: Advanced Cardiac Imaging: Echocardiography (Echo)

Location: US

Company: The University of Hong Kong

About this course:
This course is for cardiologists, cardiac sonographers/ technologists, anesthetists, emergency medicine physicians, radiologists and other health professionals who want to learn more about echocardiography. Previous experience in echocardiography is not required.
The learning outcomes are:

Understanding basic echocardiography physics, acquisition of echocardiographic images and how to assess commonly used echocardiography modalities (e.g. 2D view, M-mode, Doppler).

Ability to analyze echocardiography images such as parasternal, subcostal, suprasternal and apical views

Attain hands-on experience to analyze real clinical cases from a database of 50 anonymised clinical cases, using dedicated echocardiography software, as well as further supplementation through our web forum.

Understanding of future developments in echocardiography field such as 3D, 4D and artificial intelligence.

Provide career advice and thoughts from well-known echocardiography experts through exclusive interviews.

The HKU Advanced Cardiac Imaging Professional Certificate program on edX offers two concurrent courses, Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR), for students to learn complementary cardiovascular imaging techniques. The Cardiac Imaging course received the GOLD Award Winner of QS Reimagine Education Award 2021 in Life Sciences and it was also shortlisted as a finalist for the 2021 edX Prize.

How to acquire the echocardiography views

How to assess the ventricular function and cardiac valves

Understand the normal and abnormal appearances of the pericardium, valves and the great vessels.

An overview of the main cardiac diseases, such as coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy (e.g. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy), valvular heart disease, cardiac emboli and congenital heart disease.

Introduction of advanced techniques such as myocardial strain, contrast and stress echocardiography.

Utilization of echocardiography in cardiac procedure, e.g. ASD closure.

First ever echocardiography MOOC! Learn the echo essentials through short videos, downloadable cases, and web forums.

Duration: 5 weeks

Curriculum:
- How to acquire the echocardiography views
- How to assess the ventricular function and cardiac valves
- Understand the normal and abnormal appearances of the pericardium, valves and the great vessels.
- An overview of the main cardiac diseases, such as coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy (e.g. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy), valvular heart disease, cardiac emboli and congenital heart disease.
- Introduction of advanced techniques such as myocardial strain, contrast and stress echocardiography.

- Utilization of echocardiography in cardiac procedure, e.g. ASD closure.