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Julia Grapsa, Vijay Kunadian, Davide Capodanno, Rafael Vidal-Perez, Maria Radu, Panagiota Christia, Anastasia Efimova, Stephan Windecker, Patrizio Lancellotti, Bernard Cosyns, Erwan Donal, Bogdan Alexandru Popescu, Gilbert Habib, Joint EACVI HIT/EAPCI young survey/ESC CoT survey: training and education for ‘multimodality imaging in structural interventions’: the rise of a new sub-specialty?, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2016, Pages 1432–1433, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jew171
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Over the past decade, there have been significant advances in interventions for structural and valvular heart disease, with multimodality imaging playing a prominent role in patient selection, pre-procedural screening, and/or procedural guidance.1,2 This growth in structural interventions emphasizes the need for cardiologists with expertise in advanced imaging. Therefore, the question is whether the current training and education are sufficient in terms of training for imaging in structural interventions, as well as whether the current demand for imaging cardiologists will evolve imaging in structural intervention into a specific sub-specialty in cardiology. The aim of this worldwide survey was to evaluate the needs of young cardiologists with respect to training and education in the field of imaging in interventional cardiology.
Nucleus members of three young European Society of Cardiology (ESC) communities (EACVI Heart Imagers of Tomorrow, EAPCI Young, and ESC Cardiologists of Tomorrow) built an anonymous questionnaire, with final review and approval by the EACVI scientific committee. The questionnaire was distributed to young imaging cardiology fellows—either in their training period or at a stage of early career—through the mailing list of the ESC. The participation period was 2 months (October 2015 to December 2015).