HEARTweb Courses
Courses and workshops offered by HEARTweb include:
Postgraduate Clinical Ultrasound Courses
From July 2009, we implemented a new suite of courses which has built upon our highly successful Postgraduate diploma of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography course. We now provide a much broader range of options:
Postgraduate Certificate of Clinical Ultrasound (PG Cert CU)
In order to broaden the scope of clinical ultrasound training and allow for greater participation, the new Certificate level course has been developed. This course will be half the length and extent of the Diploma course (4 subjects), and may be completed over one University Semester ( 12 weeks full-time), or over two university Semesters (24 weeks part-time).
The principal of this course is simple. All medical specialties need an understanding of basic haemodynamic state and basic cardiac assessment using ultrasound, in order to effectively manage acutely unwell patients, patients with multiple comorbidities or advanced age. This also serves to instruct students on the basics of ultrasound principles and techniques. The second part to this course is to provide useful and clinically relevant ultrasound practice that can be immediately applied by a student in their own medical specialty and clinical practice. Therefore the emphasis is to provide immediately applicable ultrasound training to a very wide range of medical specialty is at a moderately advanced level. More...
Postgraduate Diploma of Clinical Ultrasound (PG Dip CU)
Please note: This replaces the current PG Dip Echo*
Upon successful completion of the Certificate course, a new Diploma course will be introduced which will substantially expand the knowledge base in the cardiac and in the optional areas relevant for that student. This will also include a formal database reporting module. It will consist of an additional 4 subjects which can be either completed full time or part time. More...
*This new diploma course will be directly equivalent to the old diploma course in both scope and extent.
Masters of Clinical Ultrasound (PG M CU)
The Masters of Clinical Ultrasound will be open to those who have completed the Diploma of Clinical Ultrasound, or those students who have previously completed the postgraduate Diploma of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography. This will be an advanced ultrasound course with additional subjects such as stress echocardiography, intravascular ultrasound and so forth. It will also include an audit or research project. More...
Point of Care Hands-On Workshops
Each workshop contains ten hours of hands-on-activity. Two hours is dedicated to each core learning area. Techniques will be demonstrated and participants will practice using ultrasound systems. Registrants will be divided into small groups (maximum of five per group) and groups will rotate through each core learning area station.
H.A.R.T.scan"'® (Haemodynamic echocardiographic Assessment in Real Time)
This course is designed to extend your experience and training with transthoracic echocardiography.
More about H.A.R.T.scan"'®...
Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks and Vascular Access
This workshop is designed to cover ultrasound guided interventions.
More about Nerve Blocks...
Previously Offered:
Post Graduate Diploma of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography (PG Dip Echo)
Please note: This course is no longer offered by The University of Melbourne.
The post graduate Diploma of Perioperative and Critical Care Echocardiography course from the University of Melbourne has been exceptionally successful. It is been the dominant postgraduate medical specialist training course in ultrasound in the specialties of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Accident and Emergency medicine in Australasia. More...
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