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Certificate Course on ECG

India is witnessing a rise in cases of coronary artery disease, majority of which are of acute onset. These cases require timely diagnosis and treatment. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the best diagnostic tool available, which is simple, easy and non-invasive investigation.

ECG monitoring is becoming more common in both inpatient and outpatient caresettings. Hence, it is important to have a sound knowledge and ability to interpret ECG accurately and quickly for classifying patients of acute coronary syndrome. This necessitates that not only specialists, but also other healthcare professionals like General practitioners, Interns, Post Graduate students, Nurses and Paramedical staff should have basic understanding of ECG for timely diagnosis.

To cater to the need for a quality course on ECG, Medvarsity offers a Certificate course in ECG for healthcare professionals. This course has been designed to provide understanding on basic concepts of ECG that would help as a guidepost while dealing with cases of acute coronary syndrome and rhythm disturbances. To provide better understanding and for more effective learning, multimedia based animations with ECG graphs have been used. These demonstrations are interactive and enhance learning ability.

Course Details

Course objective

* To achieve full utility of ECG as diagnostic    and therapeutic Guide.

* Enable doctor to interpret ECG confidently.   Identification of cases requiring further   management.

* Identification of critical cases for specialist   care.

Course Highlights

* Use of highly effective multimedia

  animations to explain concepts of ECG.

* Course material developed by experienced   specialist from Apollo Hospital.

* Any time anywhere learning.

* Course material (CDs) useful for ready   reference.

Eligibility

* MBBS Graduates, Post Graduate students;

* General Practitioners (Including Alternative   Medicine);

* Under Graduate Medical students;

* Healthcare professionals;

* Nurses.

Duration

* 3 months.

* One week OPTIONAL Contact Programme   with clinicians at the end of the course.

Course Content

The course has five modules which deals with the following topics:

1.Basics of ECG

2.Rhythmic Disorders

3.Coronary Artery Diseases

4.Conduction Defects, Chamber Enlargement & Hypertrophy.

5.Miscellaneous

Each module is divided into discrete learning units. The purpose of these learning units is to impart students better knowledge, and understanding of terminology and physiology in ECG interpretation.

Course delivery and Certification

The course material will be available both online and offline. An ID and password is provided to access the course content and online assessments. Additional value added features like articles and journals will be provided periodically through e-mail. Assessments and doubt clarifications are also provided during the course.

The registrant shall complete all the internal assessments online before joining the contact program. The final examination will be held on completion of all course modules. Certification will be by AHERF & Medvarsity.

About Medvarsity Online Ltd

Medvarsity, India's first virtual medical established portal was established in April 2000 as a joint venture by Apollo Hospitals & NIIT. Medvarsity in association with Apollo Hospitals conducts online courses for medical & paramedical community. Medvarsity offers its courses in collaboration with reputed bodies like Royal College of General Practitioners and and Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation, IRDA Etc.

About AHERF

Apollo Hospital Educational and Research Foundation conducts other educational and training program including Nursing, Physiotherapy, Emergency Medicine, Surgery Anesthesiology and Masters Degree in Hospital Administration.

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