The One year Fellowship in Primary Care Cardiology aims at providing a General practitioner with comprehensive up-to-date knowledge and skills in the prevention and diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in their clinical practice.
At the end of this course, the General Practitioner will be able to provide better patient care through an increased ability to:
- Identify risk factors for development of coronary artery disease (CAD) and advise optimum primary prevention measures
- Understand various testing options and data on screening studies for CAD and how to apply this information to the management of patients at risk for CAD
- Evaluate patients with essential hypertension, malignant hypertension and secondary hypertension
- Provide primary care and follow up of patients with various Cardiovascular diseases
- Identify congenital cardiac diseases in children, and initiate management strategies for such
- Determine when to refer the patient to a Cardiologist/other specialist
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