COVID-19 UPDATE--With the 2019-2020 academic year complete, we've just finished the 14th year of the Johns Hopkins Cardiac CT Practicum.  The last 6 courses were smoothly and successfully converted to a virtual format to meet the challenges posed by the pandemic.  We hope everybody will have a great summer, and we wish all our participants in the course who are taking the boards, good luck.  We are scheduled to resume in September, and have just now (July 16) made the decision to conduct the September 2020 course in the virtual format.  We are hoping that in November we can revert to in-person teaching, but whether that will be possible is currently uncertain.  We have found that to accomplish the studies required for level II in the virtual format requires very long days (8:30 AM to 7:30 PM x 5 days).  Those participants who wish to acquire the additional cases now necessary for CBCCT Board eligibility will have to devote one additional day.  This will probably be on the Saturday following the scheduled 5 day course.

Cardiac CT has been utilized as a clinical, research, and teaching tool at Johns Hopkins since February, 2003, with first 16, then 32, 64, and now 320 detector scanners in use at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital. We have gathered a broad experience in CT image acquisition and interpretation, and have imaged thousands of patients with a wide range of indications and findings. CT research at Johns Hopkins has focused on clinical correlations, image acquisition techniques, plaque imaging, perfusion, viability, and other issues. Active CT teaching programs have been ongoing since late 2003; the faculty has developed expertise in teaching techniques of CT interpretation and has trained over 1200 physicians in a wide variety of programs meeting criteria for ACC/AHA Level I, II, and III certification [1].

Welcome to this site, which is devoted to our various teaching programs. Click here [2] for more information about our Level 2/3 training program, or contact us to discuss weter our CT course wll meet your needs.