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The SCAI Structural Heart Disease Council: Toward addressing training, credentialing, and guidelines for structural heart disease intervention
Author(s) -
Feldman Ted,
Ruiz Carlos E.,
Hijazi Ziyad M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.22701
Subject(s) - credentialing , medicine , intervention (counseling) , curriculum , disease , medical education , percutaneous coronary intervention , physical therapy , family medicine , cardiology , nursing , pedagogy , myocardial infarction , psychology
The field of structural heart disease (SHD) intervention has grown rapidly over the past several years. While training program content, standards, credentialing, and board examinations for percutaneous coronary intervention have matured and become well developed, no such structure exists in the field of SHD. Recognition of the need for training program standards and SHD curriculum stimulated the SCAI to form a SHD council, described in this report. In the accompanying two articles, we report the results of a survey of the status of SHD training in programs in the United States and define a core curriculum for structural intervention training. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.