Aims:

1- To train knowledgeable, competent, and liable Physicians in order to provide echocardiography related diagnosis, treatment, prevention, education, and research in the society.

2- In next 10 years, Iran will be among the top countries in the world in terms of educational standards and research products and service provision people in this field.

Specific Competencies and Skills

Procedural Skills (Diagnostic-Therapeutic procedures) and variety of patients:

All cases of TTE including:

1. Rheumatic valve diseases

2. Other valve diseases (congenital)

3. Prosthetic valve diseases

4. Assessment of left and right ventricular systolic (and diastolic) functions

5. Degenerative valve disease

6. Systemic blood pressure

7. Cardiomyopathies (congestive, hypertrophic, restrictive, etc.)

8. Ischemic heart disease

9. Infective endocarditis

10. Non-cyanotic congenital heart disease (operated and non-operated)

11. Heart tumors

12. Increased pulmonary arterial pressure and pulmonary embolism

13. Aortic diseases (aneurysm and dissection)

14. Complex cyanotic congenital diseases

15. Operated complex congenital diseases and surgical shunts

16. Pericardial diseases (Tamponade and CP)

TEE

IOTEE (Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography ordered by a cardiac surgeon or an anesthesiologist)

Interventional TEE (including mitral valve repair, embedding aortic valve, left atrial appendage closure, ASD closure, and percutaneous repair of prosthetic valve regurgitation)

Esophageal intubation

TDI, TSI, strain imaging

Stress echo

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