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Diploma of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography
Entirely Distance Education
Education is conducted using distance education teaching methods including interactive tutorials, workbooks, texts and prescribed journal articles. The course is designed to start with basic knowledge building blocks and evolve to interpretation, reporting and application of echocardiography in the perioperative and critical care environments. Assessment is in an open book Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) examination and workbook, for each subject and is conducted via distance. Full time (1 year) or part time (2 years).
There are 8 subjects, with up to 10 tutorials per subject. Each subject consists of multimedia Word documents of at least 4,000 words written by 70 contributors. To find out more See the Promotional Video [Windows Media] [QuickTime]
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Local Students and Intenational students 
Email: echo-info@unimelb.edu.au
| Intake March 2009 | - | Applications close 30 November 2008 |
| Intake July 2009 | - | Applications close 31 May 2009 |
Accreditation: this courses accredited in Australia and New Zealand by the College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) in the highest pedigree for supervised training in echocardiography.
CME: Europe and USA up to 9 CME points per subject; Australia total of 50 points.
Point of Care Ultrasound Course
This is an entirely hands on introductory course pitched mainly at anaesthetists, intensivists, Accident & Emergency physicians or surgeons.
Ultrasoud Guided Nerve Blocks and Vascular Access
HEARTscan Haemodynamic Echocardiography Assessment in Real Time
Multimedia Word documents and video material is distributed prior to the course and it is assumed that all participants are thoroughly familiar with this material prior to the course. No time is spent revising this material and all of the time during the course is spent in groups of 5 and is entirely hands on.
There are 25 students at 5 stands with 2 hours spent at each stand. These include transthoracic diagnostic, transthoracic haemodynamic assessment, ultrasound guided nerve blocks, ultrasound guided cannulation, FAST, introduction to vascular, venous, ocular, thyroid, tracheal and soft tissue ultrasound imaging.