Personalized
Skills Center
The Personalized Skills Center offers a selection of modules to choose from to augment the learning that takes place in the traditional classroom.
Sharpen your core cardiology
skills while learning at your leisure on iPads. This is a uniquely dynamic
learning opportunity you won't want to miss!
Heart Songs
Research reveals that cardiologists failed to
identify more than half of basic murmurs and about 35 percent of advanced
murmurs when challenged at a major medical meeting, but skills
improved after a 90-minute training session.
Heart Songs provides you with a unique audiovisual experience specifically designed to refresh your cardiac auscultation skills. This clinical skills workshop features three “tracks”:
· Common heart murmurs
· More advanced sounds such as bicuspid aortic valve and mitral valve prolapse
· Expert murmurs such as combined aortic stenosis and regurgitation, or combined mitral stenosis and regurgitation
First, pick a track and assess your baseline skills by taking a confidential pretest. Then simply view videos featuring classic heart murmurs accompanied by phonocardiograms and color Doppler echoes. Each video includes hundreds of repetitions of its murmur, and studies show that simple repetition is all you need to master a new sound. Watch the videos as many times as necessary to see a significant improvement on your posttest scores (most people need to watch 2 to 4 times). Each Heart Songs track takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and sessions are self-paced.
Heart Songs makes sure you
know what your stethoscope is telling you!
Body
Interact Simulation Lab
Take an experiential, game-based deep-dive into acute and
chronic cases covering a broad range of clinical scenarios with the help of the
Body Interact Simulation. This physician guided, learn-by-doing approach is
highly customizable and suitable for early career and advanced clinicians
alike. Cases presented will utilize guidelines and clinical evidence, and will
provide you with immediate feedback via a visual dashboard and expert
debriefing. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to test your skills and
develop your clinical decision-making through real-time patient interaction and
peer-to-peer discussion!