AMBULATORY CARDIOLOGY ELECTIVE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Refine skills in obtaining and interpreting the history provided by patients with chest pain, syncope, heart failure, and palpitations. Audience: Graduate 2. Perform and interpret the cardiovascular physical exam. Audience: Graduate 3. Improve ability to define, diagnose and begin the initial management of heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, stable ischemic heart disease, resistant hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and hyperlipidemia. Audience: Graduate 4. Become familiar with resources for self-study for chest X-ray and electrocardiogram (EKG) interpretation. Audience: Graduate 5. Develop expertise in the prediction of an individual patientʼs cardiovascular risk as well as guideline directed mitigation of that risk. Audience: Graduate 6. Become familiar with the use of Bayeʼs Theorem. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Refine skills in obtaining and interpreting the history provided by patients with chest pain, syncope, heart failure, and palpitations. Audience: Graduate 2. Perform and interpret the cardiovascular physical exam. Audience: Graduate 3. Improve ability to define, diagnose and begin the initial management of heart failure, acute coronary syndromes, stable ischemic heart disease, resistant hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and hyperlipidemia. Audience: Graduate 4. Become familiar with resources for self-study for chest X-ray and electrocardiogram (EKG) interpretation. Audience: Graduate 5. Develop expertise in the prediction of an individual patientʼs cardiovascular risk as well as guideline directed mitigation of that risk. Audience: Graduate 6. Become familiar with the use of Bayeʼs Theorem. Audience: Graduate