BHVS Competencies in valve disease - British Heart Valve Society

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2. Hospital or other institution(Required)

3. Grade (e.g. Professor, consultant, band 7 etc)(Required)

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5. Valve training (e.g. experience in specialist valve clinic, BHVS training day)(Required)

6. Valve specific activity(Required)

6.1 Valve clinic (if applying as a noninvasive cardiologist, physiologist-scientist or nurse)(Required)

a. Please give approximate patient volumes each year(Required)

b. What types of patient seen (e.g. native moderate and severe, post endocarditis, post-surgery, post-TAVI)(Required)

c. How many sessions each week(Required)

d. What arrangements exist for reviewing patients with problems revealed in nurse-led or physiologist/scientist-led clinics?(Required)

e. Any other types of clinic (e.g. murmur clinic, psychologist)(Required)

f. Do you have links to EP, elderly care, heart failure?(Required)

g. Do you have inclusion and exclusion criteria?(Required)

h. Do you discuss cases at an MDT if necessary?(Required)

i. Do you give inpatient consultations about valve disease?(Required)

j. Do you have patient information e.g. leaflets or web-based?(Required)

k. Do you perform patient surveys or perform QA?(Required)

l. Do you have one-stop valve echocardiograms?(Required)

m. Do you have access to valve stress echo, CT or CMR?(Required)

6.2 Valve interventions (if applying as an interventional cardiologist)(Required)

a. TAVI approx. annual volume(Required)

b. Paraprosthetic valve repair approx. annual volume(Required)

c. Mitral balloon valvotomy approx. annual volume(Required)

d. Transcatheter mitral procedure approx. total volume(Required)

e. Other(Required)

6.3 Valve surgery (if applying as a surgeon)(Required)

a. Aortic valve replacements approx. annual centre volume and individual volume(Required)

b. Mitral valve replacements approx annual centre volume and individual volume(Required)

c. Mitral valve repair approx. annual centre volume and individual volume(Required)

d. Other (e.g. aortic valve repair, robotic)(Required)

6.4 Imaging (if applying as a specialist echocardiographer not running a valve clinic)(Required)

a. Approximate annual volume of all transthoracic echocardiograms(Required)

b. Approximate annual number of specialist valve echocardiograms for the centre and for an individual if applying for registration as an echocardiographer(Required)

c. Does your department routinely use a stand-alone Doppler probe and insonate from at least two windows in patients with significant aortic stenosis(Required)

d. Does your department routinely use semiquantitative methods (e.g. PISA method or vena contracta width) for assessing mitral regurgitation(Required)

e. Is 3D echocardiography available(Required)

f. Approximate annual number of valve stress echocardiograms for the centre and for an individual if applying for registration as an echocardiographer(Required)

g. Approximate annual number of specialist valve CT scans for the centre and for an individual if applying for registration as a CT specialist(Required)

h. Approximate annual number of cardiac magnetic resonance scans for the centre and interpreted by an individual if applying for registration as a specialist in magnetic resonance(Required)

i. Approximate annual number of cardiac-related PET/CT scans for the centre and for an individual if applying for registration as a nuclear medicine specialist(Required)

7. Valve related research or publications(Required)

a. Research projects (local and multicentre)(Required)

b. Publications(Required)

8. Valve CPD (e.g. Eurovalve, BHVS, components of BCS, ESC, AHA, JACC)(Required)

a. In last one year(Required)

b. In past 5 years(Required)

9. Membership of national/international organisation (e.g. EACVI working group)(Required)

10. Free text to explain involvement with valve disease not covered elsewhere(Required)

11. Unless you prefer not to please provide a passport-sized photograph of your head and shoulders for display on the website

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