The Johns Hopkins Cardiac CT Practicum includes instruction in the acquisition of cardiac CT data through participation in scanning "live cases".
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UPDATES
COURSE UPDATES--In response to requests, we have expanded our coverage of TAVR, TMVR, and Watchman, and have welcomed Drs. Brian Schuler, an EP specialist/CT angiographer, Dr Gabriel Shaya, CT angiographer, and Dr. Muhammad Umair, a cardiovascular radiologist, onto our faculty. We also welcome Jason Ortman RT (R)(MR) as our course coordinator and IT specialist, who has moved quickly to streamline and improve the technical backbone of the course. New course dates have been added to the schedule to fill out the year 2026 and extend ito 2027.
The new book, "Practical Guide to Cardiac CT", published by Springer is an up to date summary of cardiac CT with many of the chapters written by members of our teaching staff. The book will be provided to participants along with the usual materials.
BOARD ELIGIBILITY--Since July 2020 the CBCCT has required a much greater number of cases (250) for board eligibility. We have accomplished this without compromising our well known clinical and multimodality correlations, by extending our hours (8:30AM to 7:30PM) for the one week of scheduled activities, and by reviewing additional cases during a series of flexible "office hours" during the week following the course. The intense nature of this course has become more demanding with the new requirements! Please be prepared to spend additional time interpreting these cases in the weeks following the course to assure your eligibility for Level II verification and the CBCCT board examination.
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 and dual source scanner 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 2000 physicians in a wide variety of programs meeting criteria for ACC/AHA Level I, II, and III certification.
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