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COURSE DESIGN OF POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COMMUNITY CARDIOLOGY
THEORY COURSES
First Year Courses:
COURSE 1: Fundamentals of Cardiovascular System I
Block 1. Basic Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, Development of Heart and
Radiology of the Heart
Block 2. Fundamentals of Electrocardiography
COURSE 2: Fundamentals of Cardiovascular System II
Block l. Fundamentals of Echocardiography
Block 2. Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography & Radionuclides Studies
COURSE 3: Common Cardiovascular Diseases I
Block l. Hypertension and Heart Failure.
Block 2. Atherosclerosis & Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiac Emergencies
COURSE 4: Co mm on Cardiovascular Diseases II
Block l. Rheumatic Heart Disease & Infective Endocarditis
Block 2. Valvular heart disease, Cardiomyopathy & Diseases of
Pericardium
Second Year Courses:
COURSE 5: Common Cardiovascular Diseases III
Block l. Cardiac Arrhythmias
Block 2. Congenital Heart Disease
Block 3. Cardiovascular Surgery
B!ock 4. Vascular Diseases
Block 5. Geriatric heart disease
COURSE 6: Cardiovascular Related Disorders
Block l. Diabetes Mellitus.
Block 2. Pregnancy related cardiac problems.
Block 3. Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Block 4. Renal Failure
Block 5. Cardiac Rehabilitation
COURSE 7; Cardiovascular Epidemiology
Block l. Basic Epidemiological & Statistical methods Block 2. Preventive
Cardiology
Block 3. Holistic Health Care
PRACTICAL COURSES
First Year:
COURSE 1: Cardiovascular Evaluation I (3 Months)
Block 1. Clinical Evaluation.
Block 2. Non-invasive Cardiac Investigation I (ECG, Stress testing &
Chest X-rays)
COURSE 2: Cardiovascular Evaluation U (3 Months)
Block 1. Non-invasive Cardiac Investigation II (Echocardiography)
Block 2. Related Cardiac Investigation (Catheterization, Angiography &
Radionuclides Studies Ambulatory monitoring)
COURSE 3: Management of Common Cardiovascular Diseases (6 Months)
Block 1. Management of Valvular Heart Diseases & Arrhythmias & Heart
Failure
Block 2. Management of Ischemic heart diseases & Other Common
Cardiovascular Disease
Second Year Courses:
COURSE 4: Intensive Coronary Care (2 Months + 1 Month of special
Observation)
Block 1. Organization of Intensive Coronary Care Unit
Block 2. Cardiac resuscitation
Block 3. Management of cardiac arrhythmias
Block 4. Ventilation
COURSE 5: Management of Congenital Heart Diseases (3 Months)
Block 1. Approach to Congenital heart disease
COURSE 6: Preventive Cardiology (6 Months)
Block 1. Cardiac Rehabilitation
Block 2. Community Survey.
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