Overview

Echo Education Update – presented by Joel Money, MD

Accreditation

HealthPartners is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

HealthPartners Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:

• 1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
• Credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery’s (ABTS) Maintenance of Certification program

It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC or ABTS credit.

Objectives

Regularly attending this series will allow participants to be able to:

• Apply strategies to correctly measure cardiac structures
• Evaluate cardiac disease and the data that needs to be acquired to answer various clinical questions
• Describe Doppler assessment of stenotic and regurgitant valvular lesions
• Assess wall motion and performance of echocardiography stress testing
• Analyze & discuss recently published studies and guidelines for management of congenital heart disease and rarer cardiac diagnoses