Guest guest Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Does anybody know what criteria a cardiolologist must pass to become an EP. Does this require ablations to be taken into account ?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Hi, , You can find the requirements for certification of EPs at http://www.abim.org/cert/policies_aqccep.shtm. This is the site of the American Board of Internal Medicine. You can also check and see if your EP is certified. As far as ablations are concerned: " To assure credible confirmation of proficiency in certain procedural techniques, candidates must perform a minimum of 150 intracardiac procedures in at least 75 patients, of which 75 are catheter ablations (including postdiagnostic testing) and 25 are initial cardioverter-defibrillator implantations (including programming). Participation in diagnostic EP studies (including mapping) is necessary, as is implantation and programming of pacemakers...Performance of the required minimum number of procedures is not a guarantee of proficiency. The Board will seek substantiation from the training program director that the candidate acquired the requisite skills and is competent to provide comprehensive and specialized medical care in the field of clinical cardiac elctrophysiology. " Of course, this doesn't say anything about what kind of catheter ablations they have to perform. That is, I don't know if some or any of the 75 catheter ablations have to be afib ablations. --- I n AFIBsupport , " martin " wrote: > > Does anybody know what criteria a cardiolologist must pass to become an > EP. > > Does this require ablations to be taken into account ?. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 thanks for this information. I can't get the link to work. Any suggestions? > > > > Does anybody know what criteria a cardiolologist must pass to > become an > > EP. > > > > Does this require ablations to be taken into account ?. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 if you cut and pasted the link there is a period after the .com remove the period and all is well > thanks for this information. I can't get the link to work. Any > suggestions? > > > > > > > > Does anybody know what criteria a cardiolologist must pass to > > become an > > > EP. > > > > > > Does this require ablations to be taken into account ?. > > > > > > > > > > > > Web Page - http://www.afibsupport.com > List owner: AFIBsupport-owner > For help on how to use the group, including how to drive it via email, > send a blank email to AFIBsupport-help > > Nothing in this message should be considered as medical advice, or should > be acted upon without consultation with one's physician. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 > > > > Hi, , > > > > You can find the requirements for certification of EPs at > > http://www.abim.org/cert/policies_aqccep.shtm. This is the site of > > the American Board of Internal Medicine. You can also check and see > > if your EP is certified. > > > > As far as ablations are concerned: " To assure credible confirmation > > of proficiency in certain procedural techniques, candidates must > > perform a minimum of 150 intracardiac procedures in at least 75 > > patients, of which 75 are catheter ablations (including > > postdiagnostic testing) and 25 are initial cardioverter- defibrillator > > implantations (including programming). Participation in diagnostic EP > > studies (including mapping) is necessary, as is implantation and > > programming of pacemakers...Performance of the required minimum > > number of procedures is not a guarantee of proficiency. The Board > > will seek substantiation from the training program director that the > > candidate acquired the requisite skills and is competent to provide > > comprehensive and specialized medical care in the field of clinical > > cardiac elctrophysiology. " > > > > Of course, this doesn't say anything about what kind of catheter > > ablations they have to perform. That is, I don't know if some or any > > of the 75 catheter ablations have to be afib ablations. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Thanks, . I thought that might be the problem. > > if you cut and pasted the link there is a period after the .com remove > the period and all is well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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