Diploma

Learning Components

Last updated : 01/10/2024 - 524 views

The EDEC participants must collect 40 points, complete the Logbook and pass the EDEC Exam to be awarded the EDEC Diploma.

To secure the 40 points, the EDEC Committee provides learning components in line with the latest advances in continuous medical education (CME).

The participants are requested to upload the certificates to the EDEC profile to gather the points.

Clinical Case Course

Date: December 10, 2024
Format: Online
EDEC Points: 6 points

Course DirectorPhilippe VIGNON MD, PhD Medical-surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospital, Limoges, France

Registration fees for the Clinical Courses are included in the initial EDEC fees.

Advanced Course

Date: October 5-6, 2024 (LIVES 2024)
Format: Onsite in Barcelona, Spain
EDEC Points: 12 points

Course DirectorPhilippe VIGNON MD, PhD Medical-surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospital, Limoges, France

The Advanced Course on IC Echocardiography has been designed for intensivists, registered or not in the EDEC Curriculum, who would like to refine their knowledge on the subject.

The points for this mandatory course can be collected only once.

This course is not included in the fee for the EDEC Diploma

Monothematic Session

Date: November 5, 2024
Format: Online
EDEC Points: 4-6 points

Course director: Philippe VIGNON MD, PhD Medical-surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospital, Limoges, France

Registration fees for the monothematic sessions are included in the initial EDEC fees.

Webcasts

Self-study
Format: Online
EDEC Points: 1 point/webcast

A final pool of 10 selected webcasts (webinar recordings) has been made available in the online classroom (Academy). In order to get the EDEC points, the participants must watch the recordings and complete successfully the related quiz.

For the moment, the candidates can still watch all webinars from the previous years. However, no point can be collected.

Virtual Reality Experience (VRE)

Self-study

Format: Online
EDEC Points: 1 point/virtual reality experience

In the following months, 2 virtual reality experience resources will be available in the online classroom (Academy). They will allow participants to undertake virtual reality-enhanced simulation training, for the achievement of specific practical skills required in advanced critical care EchoCardiography.

VRE Septic shock

  • Learning objectives:
    • Identify septic cardiomyopathy
    • Evaluate fluid responsiveness using ‘dynamic’ indices
    • Illustrate how to monitor the effects of a passive leg rising
    • Assess the cardiac response to inotropes.

VRE: Acute respiratory distress syndrome

  • Learning objectives:
    • To identify RV dilatation in ventilated ARDS patients and cardiovascular factors potentially participating in hypoxemia
    • To ascertain the tolerance of ventilatory settings using echocardiography in patients at risk of RV failure
    • To identify acute cor pulmonale and to adjust therapy
    • To illustrate the management of fluids in patients with acute cor pulmonale.

This component will be made available by the end of the year.

Recognised Courses

EDEC Points: 3 points for a 1-day course, 6 points for a 2-day course (or more)

CourseCountryWebsite

• 3-day Critical Care Echo Course (St Georges Hospital)
UK (London)www.criticalcareecho.com

• ACCP Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography
USA (Glenview)www.chestnet.org/

• Nepean Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography Course
Australiahttps://niccer.asn.au/

• Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography Board Review Exam Course –

Virtual  CHEST
USAhttps://www.chestnet.org/

• Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography Course
IrelandN/A

• Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography Training (University of Toronto)
Canada (Toronto)www.echocardiography.ca

• (LACE) Leeds Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography Course (3-Day)
UK (Leeds)https://events.humanitix.com/leeds-advanced-critical-care-echo-course?

• Barts Heart-Advanced Critical Care Echo Course 

(in conjunction with Nepean ICU, Sydney)
UK (London)https://events.humanitix.com/bartsheart2023

• Critical Care Echocardiography Masterclass

Saudi Arabia

https://savinglivesacademy.com/ultrasound-masterclass-main-page/

• Czech National Course for Advanced Echocardiography
Czech Republichttps://mhconsulting.cz/

• EACTAIC Echo Course
EUhttp://www.eactaic.org/events/echo-courses/

• Echocardiography for Haemodynamic Monitoring
Belgium (Brussels)www.intensive.org

• Pre-symposium Course on Echocardiography in the ICU (Advanced)
Belgium (Brussels)www.intensive.org

• Program of Diploma in Critical Care Echocardiography
ChileN/A

• TEE Masterclass programs (July and December)
FranceN/A

• Transthoracic Echocardiography Course for Critically ill Patients and 

Haemodynamic Monitoring
Spainwww.echosimgroup.es

• 
Advance USG/ECHO
Indiahttps://www.euroasia2024.com/workshop.php

Only the EDEC participants can access the EDEC online classroom at the Academy.

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