The pediatric echocardiography Boot Camp: Four‐year experience and impact on clinical performance

Abstract

The pediatric echocardiography Boot Camp improved self-efficacy, acquisition, and retention of echocardiography skills and knowledge, and increased echocardiogram performance. Observed differences between Boot Camp and control CFs appear to wane across fellowship.

A standardized imaging protocol improves quality and reduces practice variability in echocardiographic assessment of ventricular function by first‐year pediatric cardiology fellows

“…[2][3][4][5][6] The amount of time dedicated to teaching echocardiography skills in these programs varies, but intensive educational sessions have been shown to lead to higher quality echocardiograms and greater independence. 7 However, an understanding of best practices in echocardiography education after fellowship orientation is lacking.…”

Organisation of paediatric echocardiography laboratories and governance of echocardiography services and training in Europe: current status, disparities, and potential solutions. A survey from the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) imaging working group

“…Thirty-six centres (84%) have a dedicated paediatric echocardiography laboratory, only five (12%) of which reported they were European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging accredited. The median number of echocardiography rooms was three (range 1-12), and echocardiography machines was four (range [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Only half of all the centres have dedicated imaging physiologists and/or nursing staff, while the majority (79%) have specialist imaging cardiologist(s).…”

“…Quality improvement processes have been proposed by multiple sources to reduce diagnostic errors, [3][4][5][6][7] optimise the quality of reporting, 8,9 and data interpretation, 10 but a standardised approach is still lacking. Despite being essential for quality improvement as well as structured teaching programmes, [11][12][13] accreditation of echocardiographic laboratories [14][15][16] is often lacking in cardiology programmes.…”

Development and Optimization of a Remote Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Bootcamp Using Telesimulation

“…In many pediatric subspecialties like critical care, cardiology, and neonatology, regional bootcamps are widely used to arm matriculating fellows with the core concepts and skills relevant to their respective subspecialty. [1][2][3][4][5] Such bootcamps have been shown to improve trainee knowledge, confidence, and clinical skills. 6,7 Most of these bootcamps have been targeted at novice subspecialty fellows with very little published experience of training senior subspecialty fellows using training bootcamps.…”